Lyndon Johnson actually said...

My talks with General Westmoreland have confirmed the conviction that: -- the United States has never had a more efficient and courageous fighting force in the field than the men who are serving us at this hour in Vietnam;

Context

Remarks to the Press at the LBJ Ranch Following a Report on Vietnam by General Westmoreland

08/13/1966

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