Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Where hunger, disease and ignorance abound, the conditions of violence breed.

Message to the Congress Transmitting Annual Reports on the Foreign Assistance Program for 1966 and 1967.

01/21/1968

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We shall accelerate the reequipment of South Vietnam's armed forces--in order to meet the enemy's increased firepower.

We keep in very close touch through our diplomats in that part of the world.

The only information that I know that is available is that it did not return; that it is missing.

I don't think that a military strategy that is under review from time to time, or troop deployments, or matters of that kind, ought to be sp...