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Lyndon Johnson: “It is essential to the national interest of the United States to finance export sales of surplus agricultural…”

On the recordDecember 28, 1965
It is essential to the national interest of the United States to finance export sales of surplus agricultural commodities to the United Arab Republic under title I of that Act.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Memorandum to the Secretary of State on Export Sales of Surplus Agricultural Commodities to the United Arab Republic

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