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Lyndon Johnson: “Denmark is an old country, but her people and her leadership live in the future and not in the past.”

On the recordJune 8, 1964
Denmark is an old country, but her people and her leadership live in the future and not in the past.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Toasts of the President and Prime Minister Krag of Denmark

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