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Lyndon Johnson: “I rose in the House to support President Truman and his supposedly 'disastrous' policy of containment.”

On the recordApril 2, 1967
I rose in the House to support President Truman and his supposedly 'disastrous' policy of containment.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Toasts of the President and President Sunay of Turkey

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