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The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 27
Died: 1973
Died: January 22
36Th U.S. President
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.
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We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.
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We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
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