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On the recordSeptember 4, 1966
There, we have 300,000 young Americans in South Vietnam; many thousands more in the Navy off the coast.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks Upon Arrival at the Airport in Dayton, Ohio

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