On the recordMarch 2, 1966
I am going to sign this bill, even though it provides hundreds of millions of dollars more than I thought it advisable to recommend or to ask for this year.
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presidency.ucsb.eduI am going to sign this bill, even though it provides hundreds of millions of dollars more than I thought it advisable to recommend or to ask for this year.
Remarks Upon Signing the 'Cold War GI Bill' (Veterans' Readjustment Benefits Act of 1966)
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Men like this have seen our country through every crisis that has ever confronted our Nation.
Nowhere else--in no other society on this earth--are so many so devoted to leaving this earth better than they found it.