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Lyndon Johnson: “I just hope that you will leave here today and go out and say: 'What is best for my country is best for me.'”

On the recordSeptember 4, 1966
I just hope that you will leave here today and go out and say: 'What is best for my country is best for me.'
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks Upon Arrival at the Airport in Battle Creek

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