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Lyndon Johnson: “The Republicans remember that the only way they have ever elected people is by scaring people.”

On the recordOctober 11, 1966
The Republicans remember that the only way they have ever elected people is by scaring people.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Verrazano Monument, Staten Island, New York

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