Lyndon Johnson actually said...

For me, it was a passport out of poverty.

Remarks in Boca Raton at the Dedication of Florida Atlantic University

10/24/1964

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Because I think that America is much more interested in country than they are in party.

The Congress passed the Elementary and Secondary Higher Education Act of 1965.

It is wonderful to be in your great city and in this wonderful Montgomery County Fair.

Tonight we have an immigration law that no longer asks a man, 'Where do you come from?','It asks, 'What can you do?'