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Lyndon Johnson: “I believe--as did President Kennedy--that the primary impetus needed to move our economy ahead should come, in present…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 1964
I believe--as did President Kennedy--that the primary impetus needed to move our economy ahead should come, in present circumstances, from an expansion of the private sector rather than the public sector.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Annual Budget Message to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1965.

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