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Lyndon Johnson: “Our aims are, I know, identical with yours: to enable your government to protect its people from the acts of terror…”

On the recordDecember 31, 1963
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.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

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

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