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Lyndon Johnson: “I am giving the world the very best that we have to win the most important war of all.”

On the recordFebruary 27, 1968
I am giving the world the very best that we have to win the most important war of all.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks Upon Presenting the Medal of Freedom to Robert S. McNamara

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