Political Quotes

On the recordMarch 20, 1968
He did not crack the will of the citizens of the Hang Xang District in Saigon, who fought the Vietcong with sticks, or the nurses near Baria, who hid a Korean medical team while the enemy occupied their hospital for more than 30 hours.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks to the First Graduating Class at the Foreign Service Institute's Vietnam Training Center.

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