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Lyndon Johnson: “I urge the Congress to extend and make permanent this program to bring help to unemployed parents and through them hope…”

On the recordMarch 5, 1967
I urge the Congress to extend and make permanent this program to bring help to unemployed parents and through them hope to our most disadvantaged children.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Special Message to the Congress Transmitting a Report on the Community Work and Training Program

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