Lyndon Johnson actually said...

We have taken up the age-old challenge of poverty and we don't intend to lose generations of our children to this enemy of the human race.

Remarks on Project Head Start.

05/17/1965

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It was agreed that Secretary of Agriculture Freeman and a team of agricultural experts would proceed at once to Vietnam.

We are a Government, indeed a generation, of revolutionary transformation.

The United States seeks to impose no alliance or alignment.

The Government of North Vietnam noted with regret the total absence of a present interest in peace.