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Lyndon Johnson: “Inevitably, our work as public leaders affects not only us but our posterity.”

On the recordMarch 28, 1968
Inevitably, our work as public leaders affects not only us but our posterity.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House Urging the Addition of New Areas to the Nation's...

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