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Lyndon Johnson: “We will use the laws we have, and we will seek new laws when they are necessary and useful.”

On the recordSeptember 26, 1966
We will use the laws we have, and we will seek new laws when they are necessary and useful.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks to the Delegates to the Second National Conference of United States Marshals.

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