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Lyndon Johnson: “But we are above all a patient Nation and a patient people, and we have the strength, and we have the stability and the…”

On the recordJuly 25, 1965
But we are above all a patient Nation and a patient people, and we have the strength, and we have the stability and the success to permit us to be patient.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Swearing In of Arthur J. Goldberg as U.S. Representative to the United Nations.

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