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Lyndon Johnson: “But the price of progress must not be two kinds of America--one rural and one urban, or one northern and one southern or…”

On the recordNovember 2, 1965
But the price of progress must not be two kinds of America--one rural and one urban, or one northern and one southern or one Protestant and one Catholic.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Post Office, Hye, Texas, at the Swearing In of Lawrence F. O'Brien as Postmaster General.

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