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Lyndon Johnson: “Our goal ought to be not just any job for everybody, but a job that uses all that every man and woman has to offer.”

On the recordMay 19, 1966
Our goal ought to be not just any job for everybody, but a job that uses all that every man and woman has to offer.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks by Telephone to the Convention of the United Automobile Workers.

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