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Lyndon Johnson: “Whatever we are doing in faraway places--many with strange-sounding names--we are doing it not for power, not for…”

On the recordMay 3, 1965
Whatever we are doing in faraway places--many with strange-sounding names--we are doing it not for power, not for territory, not for dominion, or not for influence.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at a Dinner Meeting of the Texas Electric Cooperatives, Inc.

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