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On the recordAugust 9, 1965
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.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Signing of the Housing and Urban Development Act

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