Lyndon Johnson actually said...

When I became President and surveyed the problem faced by our nation, I reserved judgment on the decision which General Taylor forecast in 1961 we might have to make.

Context

Letter to Senator Jackson Concerning the Bombing of North Vietnam.

03/01/1967

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