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Lyndon Johnson: “We will keep America on the tried and the tested and the trusted course of responsibility, and in this nuclear age…”

On the recordOctober 25, 1964
We will keep America on the tried and the tested and the trusted course of responsibility, and in this nuclear age, neither we nor the world can afford even a moment of recklessness, not even a breath of bluff or bluster.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at City Hall, Macon, Georgia

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