08/10/1966
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"We must let them know, and we must let the world know, that we are willing to bear the burden of a long struggle to defeat the Communist invasion of South Vietnam."
"Willpower has been our secret all along--and it must be now."
"Those were the problems that met me when I first went to Washington."
"And no nation is altogether free of any of these problems."