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On the recordAugust 11, 1965
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.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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

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