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Lyndon Johnson: “Let this be said: That the real war to end all wars must be the war to eliminate poverty.”

On the recordApril 26, 1964
Let this be said: That the real war to end all wars must be the war to eliminate poverty.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks to the Members of the International Labor Press Association

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