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Giving Thanks

By Denice Spangler Adams

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Nov 28, 2024
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The Thanksgiving Speech That Changed America

Thanksgiving is a good time to remember Lyndon Baines Johnson’s first speech as President on November 28, 1963, following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, just six days earlier, on November 22 of that same year.

Time to discuss LBJ’s significant impacts that forever changed America.

In part from L…

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