Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Our aims are, I know, identical with yours: to enable your government to protect its people from the acts of terror perpetrated by Communist insurgents from the north.

Context

New Year's Message to the Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council in South Viet-Nam.

12/31/1963

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