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Lyndon Johnson: “What began 30 years ago as an experiment to provide economic justice for the farmer has now become a tested instrument…”

On the recordJuly 21, 1965
What began 30 years ago as an experiment to provide economic justice for the farmer has now become a tested instrument in the continuing experiment each generation performs to demonstrate the vitality of our democracy.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Message to the Congress Transmitting Annual Report of the Commodity Credit Corporation

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