Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Mr. Samuels, your President wants to challenge you--and to challenge American business--to do more to solve the stubborn problems that plague this Nation and that keep us worrying at night.

Context

Remarks at the Swearing In of Howard J. Samuels as Under Secretary of Commerce.

11/29/1967

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