Lyndon Johnson actually said...

So I plead with every American to go and talk to your neighbors, because there are 1,300,000 of them that are going to miss the boat; there are 1,300,000 of them who should get their rights under the law now.

Context

Remarks in San Antonio at the Signing of the Medicare Extension Bill

04/07/1966

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