Lyndon Johnson: “There, we have 300,000 young Americans in South Vietnam; many thousands more in the Navy off the coast.”

Sometimes it is your job to go out and scout the road, to encounter and overcome the difficulties that always accompany such a vast new venture as this.

I believe deeply in your cause and I believe in you.

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