Lyndon Johnson actually said...

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.

Context

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

08/12/1965

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