Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I propose, in short, a policy of maximum choice for the American Indian: a policy expressed in programs of self-help, self-development, self-determination.

Context

Special Message to the Congress on the Problems of the American Indian: 'The Forgotten American.'

03/05/1968

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