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Lyndon Johnson: “With patience and good sense, and the help of God, we will not have to use what we have created to defend ourselves.”

On the recordOctober 25, 1964
With patience and good sense, and the help of God, we will not have to use what we have created to defend ourselves.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks on the Steps of the State Capitol, Columbia, South Carolina

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