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On the recordApril 29, 1966
I hope that we will stress imagination and creativeness, initiative, new ideas, how we can do something quicker, how we can do it better, why we ought to do something we are not doing, why we ought to discard the status quo, and proceed to things we know not of, sometimes, in the hope that out of that will come something revolutionary and something worthwhile.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks to the Recipients of the 1966 National Civil Service Awards

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