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Lyndon Johnson: “If you give people cheap electricity, they'll pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.”

On the recordAugust 11, 1966
If you give people cheap electricity, they'll pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks Upon Signing Bill Increasing the Limitation on TVA Revenue Bonds

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