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Robert C. Byrd: “Lyndon Johnson did not die in the rice paddies or the jungles of South Vietnam. But he just as surely gave his life to…”

On the recordJanuary 26, 1973
Lyndon Johnson did not die in the rice paddies or the jungles of South Vietnam. But he just as surely gave his life to the cause of freedom. He, like the soldiers, the sailors and the airmen, is one of the fallen.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
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govinfo.gov
Jan 26, 1973

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Paying tribute to former President Lyndon Johnson.

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