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Lyndon Johnson: Everything I want to work for, as your President, to achieve peace, to conquer poverty, to build a worthy…

On the recordNovember 6, 1966
Everything I want to work for, as your President, to achieve peace, to conquer poverty, to build a worthy civilization--all of these depend in a very large degree on what happens in this school and what happens in other schools throughout our land.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Welhausen Elementary School, Cotulla, Texas

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