Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Now both in terms of statistics and in terms of human welfare, it is a fact that America's first citizens, our Indian people, suffer more from poverty today than any other group in America.

Context

Remarks to Members of the National Congress of American Indians.

01/19/1964

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