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[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens associated with Third World countries and the novels of Dickens was as dangerous as any battlefield enemy.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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