We will use the laws we have, and we will seek new laws when they are necessary and useful.
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
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Remarks to the Delegates to the Second National Conference of United States Marshals.
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