Lyndon Johnson actually said...

It is important for us all to understand that these attacks at sea are only part of a basic pattern of aggression which had already shown itself against the people and Government of South Viet-Nam and the people and the Government of Laos.

Context

The President's News Conference at the LBJ Ranch

08/07/1964

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