Lyndon Johnson actually said...

We believe that this community of free nations can fully achieve the universal goals expressed in the United Nations Charter only when all governments are based on the consent of the governed.

Context

Message to President Kaunda on the Occasion of the Independence of Zambia.

10/25/1964

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