Lyndon Johnson actually said...

"I think they know that communism must be halted in Vietnam as it was halted in Western Europe, and in Greece and Turkey, and Korea, and the Caribbean, if it is determined to swallow up free peoples an..."

"I want to speak to you this morning about our society--about some of the stress that it is undergoing and about what I believe that we must do if we are to preserve civil peace and if we are to serve ..."

"Persist we will."

"Our hope is that the North Vietnamese will soon realize that they cannot succeed in taking over South Vietnam and they will turn to the task of helping their own people and building their own nation, ..."