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Lyndon Johnson: “I believe that you will still be there when the summer soldiers have fled the field of challenge.”

On the recordDecember 11, 1967
I believe that you will still be there when the summer soldiers have fled the field of challenge.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks to Delegates to the National Convention, AFL-CIO.

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