Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I am asking all agencies of the Government on our side to make sure that we're going as far as we can to extend this hand of peaceful contact to the Soviet people, without in any way endangering our security.

Context

Remarks to the Members of a Delegation of Industrial Research Leaders Upon Their Return From the Soviet Union.

12/14/1964

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