Famous Quotes | Because of these convictions, I...

Because of these convictions, I made a personal decision in the 1964 Presidential campaign to make education a fundamental issue and to put it high on the nation’s agenda. I proposed to act on my belief that regardless of a family’s financial condition, education should be available to every child in the United States—as much education as he could absorb. - Lyndon Baines Johnson
Attribution: Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973), U.S. president. The Vantage Point, ch. 9, pp. 207-208, Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1971). Presidential speech.

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