08/19/1963
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"Well, Laos is not yet a Communist country and it's my hope that it will not be."
"I find it difficult to know why anyone would oppose seeing somebody, by 1963, paid $1.25 in interstate commerce."
"I am hopeful that it will be possible for the United States to make progress towards lessening tension in our relations with the Soviet Union."
"I want to make it clear to the American people and to all of the world that all we want in Laos is peace, not war."