Lyndon Johnson actually said...

If America reaches the moon in this decade and is the first to be there, it will be due more to Wernher von Braun's efforts than to any other living man.

Context

Remarks in Stonewall, Texas, at a Barbecue in Honor of Chancellor Erhard

12/28/1963

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