It is my best judgment, based on experts within the Administration, both economic and military, that if we had made available for the next 3 years reasonable sums of military aid and economic assistance, that South Vietnam would have been viable.
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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at the Annual Convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors
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