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Lyndon Johnson: “And of those who wear the badge, I ask an equal respect both for the law and for the rights of the people they are sworn…”

On the recordMarch 9, 1967
And of those who wear the badge, I ask an equal respect both for the law and for the rights of the people they are sworn to protect.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Proclamation 3770—Law Day, U.S.A., 1967

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