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Lyndon Johnson: “But we are going to wipe out poverty and we are going to reach full employment.”

On the recordJune 26, 1964
But we are going to wipe out poverty and we are going to reach full employment.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in St. Paul at the Minnesota State Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Convention.

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