Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Dave Lilienthal and others who are very familiar with the problems there have said to me that you don't really help agricultural production a lot in a minister's office.

Context

Remarks at a News Briefing Held in Connection With the Message on Food for India

03/29/1966

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