Lyndon Johnson actually said...

There are a lot of them in the country. I want to see that they have a nursing home and medical facilities where they can go with their chins up and their chests out-and proud.

Context

Remarks to the Press on Announcing a Plan for a Pilot Health and Housing Project in Washington

01/19/1968

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