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Lyndon Johnson: “To abandon our commitments, to withdraw from our responsibilities, would endanger free men and free women everywhere…”

On the recordOctober 20, 1964
To abandon our commitments, to withdraw from our responsibilities, would endanger free men and free women everywhere, and would bring the hope for peace to an end.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks in Belleville, Illinois

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