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Lyndon Johnson: “Our country has never had as many employed, eating more, wearing more, doing better, more prosperous, generally a…”

On the recordAugust 17, 1966
Our country has never had as many employed, eating more, wearing more, doing better, more prosperous, generally a happier progressive nation with goals and objectives and with programs in their reach, and with jobs to be done and people here to do them.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks to the Summer Interns in the White House Seminar Program.

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