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Lyndon Johnson: “Discrimination costs us $15 billion due to wasted and underused manpower.”

On the recordApril 26, 1964
Discrimination costs us $15 billion due to wasted and underused manpower.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks to the Members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

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