Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I wanted to promise him--as I have promised you, my fellow Americans--that the disappointments we had known in the past would never deter us from again trying any reasonable route to negotiations.

Context

The President's Christmas Message to the Nation Upon Returning From His Round-the-World Trip.

12/23/1967

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