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On the recordNovember 1, 1964
We propose to improve and to strengthen the social security system that a Democratic President first gave America, and we don't intend to make it voluntary and ruin it, either.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks in Houston at Sam Houston Senior High School

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