More than one million Americans cannot read a newspaper, not because they are illiterate, but because they cannot see well enough—even with glasses.
Lyndon Johnson: “More than one million Americans cannot read a newspaper, not because they are illiterate, but because they cannot see…”
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Proclamation 3769—Save Your Vision Week, 1967
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