Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I selected General Taylor for this most important of our diplomatic assignments with the understanding that I would ask him to serve for a period of a year.

Context

Remarks at the Swearing In of Henry Cabot Lodge as Ambassador to South Viet-Nam.

08/11/1965

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