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Lyndon Johnson: “I am prepared to order a cessation of bombing against your country and the stopping of further augmentation of U.S.…”

On the recordMarch 20, 1967
I am prepared to order a cessation of bombing against your country and the stopping of further augmentation of U.S. forces in South Viet-Nam as soon as I am assured that infiltration into South Viet-Nam by land and by sea has stopped.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Letter to Ho Chi Minh Proposing Bilateral Discussions on the Vietnam Conflict.

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