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Lyndon Johnson: “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…”

On the recordApril 7, 1966
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.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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

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