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Lyndon Johnson: “Why not open our historical doors and let the visitors see what kind of people we really are--and what sort of people we…”

On the recordJanuary 21, 1964
Why not open our historical doors and let the visitors see what kind of people we really are--and what sort of people we really come from?
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Dedication of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of History and Technology.

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