Lyndon Johnson actually said...

You know what you are fighting for: to give the Vietnamese people a chance to build the kind of nation that they want, free from terror, free from intimidation, free from fear.

Context

Remarks to Members of the Armed Forces at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam.

10/25/1966

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