Lyndon Johnson actually said...

And the almost 3 billion people in the rest of the world who have never known the pleasure and prosperity that is ours, who have never shared the freedom that belongs to us--they watch our every move to see which direction our life will take in the hope that they, too, some day, may enjoy the blessings that are ours.

Context

Remarks at a Fundraising Dinner in Detroit

06/25/1964

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