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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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