Lyndon Johnson actually said...

No man and no woman ever grows too old or too successful to forget the memory of a childhood home that was without lights, and that was without water, and that was without covering on the floor.

Context

Remarks at the Signing of the Housing and Urban Development Act

08/09/1965

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