Lyndon Johnson actually said...

The thing, though, that made me able to take what I did take, and with my chin up, was the knowledge that men like you are willing to do what you did for your country.

Context

Remarks to Fellow Patients in the Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland.

10/20/1965

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