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Lyndon Johnson: “Mr. Samuels, your President wants to challenge you--and to challenge American business--to do more to solve the stubborn…”

On the recordNovember 29, 1967
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.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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

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