Lyndon Johnson actually said...

In Vietnam the United States is committed to a decent and a limited purpose: to defeat aggression and to let the people of Vietnam decide in peace their own political future.

Context

Remarks at a Memorial Day Service in Arlington National Cemetery

05/29/1966

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