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Lyndon Johnson: “This year I borrowed the money the other day to pay the Government a tax of $100,000.”

On the recordMarch 31, 1965
This year I borrowed the money the other day to pay the Government a tax of $100,000.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at a Ceremony in Observance of Cancer Control Month.

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