Op-Ed Contributor: Johnson’s Dream, Obama’s Speech
August 28th, 2008 by
Barack Obama’s speech — and in a way his whole candidacy — might not have been possible had President Lyndon Johnson’s address to Congress in 1965 not been given.
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