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On the recordAugust 12, 1965
The mounting crime rate and the unprecedented increase in the incidence of juvenile delinquency are matters of deep concern to me and to most Americans.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Excerpt of Letter to the Members of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice.

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