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Lyndon Johnson: “So I came here tonight to echo this combination of both personal esteem and institutional respect.”

On the recordNovember 19, 1967
So I came here tonight to echo this combination of both personal esteem and institutional respect.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen

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