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Lyndon Johnson: “There are four things which can never be retrieved--the spoken word, the sped arrow, times past, and the neglected…”

On the recordMarch 13, 1968
There are four things which can never be retrieved--the spoken word, the sped arrow, times past, and the neglected opportunity.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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