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Lyndon Johnson: “Good men must sometimes leave their homes and their loved ones, to take arms against the agents of oppression.”

On the recordJuly 22, 1966
Good men must sometimes leave their homes and their loved ones, to take arms against the agents of oppression.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Headquarters of the 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

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