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Lyndon Johnson: Americans today enjoy a good life but we know that we can never expect a free life to be an easy life.

On the recordOctober 15, 1964
Americans today enjoy a good life but we know that we can never expect a free life to be an easy life.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Swearing In of Sargent Shriver as Director, Office of Economic Opportunity.

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