Lyndon Johnson actually said...

AS I STATED on August 17, on the fourth anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, our vital alliance is perhaps the greatest adventure that this hemisphere has embarked upon since Columbus reached our shore five centuries ago.

Context

Message to the Rio Conference of the Organization of American States

11/21/1965

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