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Lyndon Johnson: “No society can be truly great--and no economy can be truly prosperous--if high, long-duration unemployment for some…”

On the recordMarch 7, 1966
No society can be truly great--and no economy can be truly prosperous--if high, long-duration unemployment for some exists side by side with low, short-term unemployment for others.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Annual Message to the Congress: The Manpower Report of the President.

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