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On the recordAugust 20, 1966
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.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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

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