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On the recordSeptember 4, 1966
Look at the men who penetrate the oceans and who fly through the air and who wear the Green Beret and who make it possible for you to dissent and who give you the liberty and freedom that you so freely exercise.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks in Dayton at the Montgomery County Fair

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