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On the recordJuly 29, 1965
Because the need for this action is plain; and it is so clear indeed that we marvel not simply at the passage of this bill, but what we marvel at is that it took so many years to pass it.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks With President Truman at the Signing in Independence of the Medicare Bill

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