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Lyndon Johnson: “This is what our great President Franklin Roosevelt was thinking about one day in April when he addressed the Daughters…”

On the recordSeptember 21, 1966
This is what our great President Franklin Roosevelt was thinking about one day in April when he addressed the Daughters of the American Revolution by saluting them as 'My fellow immigrants.'
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Signing of the Columbus Day Proclamation.

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