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Lyndon Johnson's domestic initiatives did not ultimately proceed as he would have carried them out, although after the election he began pursuing education laws and anti-poverty bills intended to change the country.
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“The things he started out to do domestically don't get done in the way he would've done them. But he starts out in, uh, after the election with the education laws, with the anti-poverty bills to change the country, and he's on his way to doing it.”38:42Report a misattribution
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