Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I reaffirm my belief that it is possible through reason and through patient effort to translate the world's common interest in survival into concrete acts of restraint and accommodation between the nations.

Context

Message to the Congress Transmitting Annual Report of U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

02/14/1966

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