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Lyndon Johnson: “This is just no time to be thinking and talking of making social security voluntary and getting rid of it as we know it.”

On the recordOctober 23, 1964
This is just no time to be thinking and talking of making social security voluntary and getting rid of it as we know it.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks on the River Front in Memphis

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