Lyndon Johnson actually said...

But they are not equal if they don't have a chance to read and write, and they don't have a chance for a doctor to take care of their teeth or their eyes when they are little and their parents don't know about it.

Context

Remarks in San Antonio at the Signing of the Medicare Extension Bill

04/07/1966

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