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On the recordApril 14, 1966
No nation ever had more competent or more loyal or more dedicated public employees than the United States of America, and no department ever had more of those kinds of employees than the Department of State.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks to the Staff at the American Embassy in Mexico City.

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