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Lyndon Johnson: “As I look out this afternoon across Lake Champlain from this inspiring Battery Park height, from the same Battery Park…”

On the recordAugust 19, 1966
As I look out this afternoon across Lake Champlain from this inspiring Battery Park height, from the same Battery Park originally sponsored by my good friend George Aiken, I have no trouble imagining what Rudyard Kipling felt when he called the sunset view here one of the two finest on earth.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at Battery Park, Burlington, Vermont

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