Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Our hopes that talks will soon begin reside in our conviction that the same mutual interest reflected in earlier agreements is present here--a mutual interest in stopping the rapid accumulation and refinement of these munitions.

Context

Message to the Congress Transmitting Annual Report of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

02/11/1968

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