03/29/1966
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"Mr. President, I do want to offer you my congratulations this evening--congratulations on your shrewd political sense."
"I am hopeful that the Civil Rights Act--which we have passed through a body that has been very difficult, in my experience, to pass civil rights bills through, in past years--can pass the House of Rep..."
"It advances the civil rights of those who still reach for their full, and what we believe their proper, place in our society."
"Every day there seem to be more and more people who are running around the country trying to figure out a way to keep me down on the farm."