This is not only $400 million more than your goal, than had been expected, but it occurred at the very same time that you were building up a military force of some 350,000 in Southeast Asia
Lyndon Johnson: “This is not only $400 million more than your goal, than had been expected, but it occurred at the very same time that…”
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Remarks at the Department of Defense Cost Reduction Ceremony.
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