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Lyndon Johnson: “Our first purpose, our constant purpose in everything we seek to do, is honorable peace.”

On the recordJuly 1, 1964
Our first purpose, our constant purpose in everything we seek to do, is honorable peace.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Swearing In of General Taylor as Ambassador to Viet-Nam.

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