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On the recordJuly 20, 1965
We need education which will stimulate and which will energize the free spirit, rather than to crush it and dampen it, as is so often true.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks to the Delegates to the White House Conference on Education.

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