Lyndon Johnson actually said...

So if Klansmen hear my voice today, let it be both an appeal and a warning to get out of the Ku Klux Klan now and return to a decent society before it is too late.

Context

Televised Remarks Announcing the Arrest of Members of the Ku Klux Klan.

03/25/1965

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