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On the recordAugust 23, 1965
No one who knew him thought that he would say 'no' when a new and an even more compelling challenge was presented to him by his President.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Swearing In of Judge Thurgood Marshall as Solicitor General.

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