Lyndon Johnson actually said...

We should now--with the cooperation of the businessmen of this country and the labor people in this country--try to get at the hard-core unemployed in this country and get them into training and shortly thereafter into jobs.

Context

Remarks to the Press on the Message 'To Earn a Living: The Right of Every American.'

01/22/1968

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