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Lyndon Johnson: “Head Start has 'replaced the conviction of failure with the hope of success.'”

On the recordMarch 13, 1967
Head Start has 'replaced the conviction of failure with the hope of success.'
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Special Message to the Congress: America's Unfinished Business, Urban and Rural Poverty

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