Lyndon Johnson actually said...

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.

Context

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

07/29/1965

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