“Make no mistake about it. I don't want a man in here to go back home thinking otherwise; we are going to win.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Remarks at a Meeting of the National Alliance of Businessmen (16 March 1968). http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=28740
1960s

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