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Lyndon Johnson: “General Westmoreland told me as we were reviewing the troops that no armed forces anywhere, at any time, commanded by…”

On the recordOctober 25, 1966
General Westmoreland told me as we were reviewing the troops that no armed forces anywhere, at any time, commanded by any commander in chief, were up to the group that we have in Vietnam now.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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

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