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Lyndon Johnson: “This country is not going to turn away from the upward course of prosperity or from the urgent hopes of peace.”

On the recordSeptember 6, 1964
This country is not going to turn away from the upward course of prosperity or from the urgent hopes of peace.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Cadillac Square, Detroit

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