Lyndon Johnson: “We cannot return to the time when to be poor was inevitably to be…”

On the recordFebruary 28, 1968

We cannot return to the time when to be poor was inevitably to be sick--without medical attention.

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Democratic · Texas

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Remarks Opening the Midyear Conference of Governors of the States and Territories.

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Lyndon Johnson: “We cannot return to the time when to be poor was inevitably to be sick--without medical attention.”