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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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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