Lyndon Johnson actually said...

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.

Context

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

03/20/1967

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