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Lyndon Johnson: “More than one million Americans cannot read a newspaper, not because they are illiterate, but because they cannot see…”

On the recordMarch 3, 1967
More than one million Americans cannot read a newspaper, not because they are illiterate, but because they cannot see well enough—even with glasses.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Proclamation 3769—Save Your Vision Week, 1967

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