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Lyndon Johnson: “I took somewhat far-reaching steps to overhaul the machinery and to strengthen the personnel in the agencies that dealt…”

On the recordOctober 26, 1964
I took somewhat far-reaching steps to overhaul the machinery and to strengthen the personnel in the agencies that dealt with our neighbors in this hemisphere.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks to the Members of the Inter-American Committee on the Alliance for Progress

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