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Lyndon Johnson: “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…”

On the recordDecember 28, 1963
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.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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

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