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Lyndon Johnson: “We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt…”

On the recordJuly 27, 1965
We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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