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FILE - In this May 29, 2010, file photo, author Richard Goodwin receives a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree from Trustee Edward Collins during commencement ceremonies at UMass-Lowell at the Tsongas Center in Lowell, Mass. Former White House aide and speechwriter Goodwin has died. He died Sunday, May 20, 2018, at his home in Concord, Mass. His wife, the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, said he died after a brief bout with cancer. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, File)

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FILE - This Aug. 28, 1963, file photo shows Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. acknowledging the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington. Next Wednesday, the nation&#8217;s first black president will stand near the spot where Martin Luther King Jr. stood 50 years ago, a living symbol of the racial progress King dreamed about, and enunciate where he believes this nation should be headed. (AP Photo/File)

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Dominique Daniel, Oakland University coordinator of university archives, left, and Shirley Paquette, archives assistant hold a display in Auburn Hills, Mich., March 10, 2015, of 50 pens used by President Lyndon Johnson to sign legislation in 1965. The pens where donated to the university by Billy Farnum, a one term U. S. Congressman. (AP Photo/The Oakland Press, Tim Thompson)

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President Lyndon Johnson first spoke of "The Great Society" while giving the University of Michigan Commencement in 1964. University of Michigan photo

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FILE - This Jan. 12, 1966 file photo shows President Lyndon Baines Johnson giving his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington. Is “strong” losing its strength? Presidents of both parties have long felt compelled to sum up the state of the union with a descriptive word or two in their State of the Union addresses. Mostly the same word. For many years now, “strong” has been the go-to adjective. House Speaker John McCormack of Mass. is at left, Sen. Carl Hayden, D-Ariz. is at right. (AP Photo, File)

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