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Lyndon Johnson: “I would like to have a million and a half children who have no school lunch at all to have a school lunch before a rich…”

On the recordMarch 30, 1966
I would like to have a million and a half children who have no school lunch at all to have a school lunch before a rich man's child gets milk at a subsidy.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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