Lyndon Johnson actually said...

So go out from these 7,000 pulpits of the land and say a new and better day is dawning, a stronger people is developing, a more secure society is on the horizon, and we are getting excited for that Promised Land.

Context

Remarks to Members of the Bishops' Council, African Methodist Episcopal Church.

09/26/1966

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