03/27/1966
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"No. We have no plans."
"No, I have not talked to Dr. Martin Luther King."
"We keep in very close touch through our diplomats in that part of the world."
"I don't think that a military strategy that is under review from time to time, or troop deployments, or matters of that kind, ought to be speculated on until the President has made a decision."