Lyndon Johnson actually said...

We do not choose to use force, but aggression narrows the alternatives--either we do nothing and let aggression succeed, or we take our stand to resist it.

Context

Remarks at Franklin D. Roosevelt's Summer Cottage, Campobello Island, New Brunswick.

08/20/1966

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