Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Side by side with your South Vietnamese comrades—and our other fighting allies—you have taken the full initial weight of the enemy's winter-spring offensive; and you have now seized the initiative.

Context

Message to U.S. Armed Forces in Southeast Asia on the Lifting of the Siege of Khe Sanh.

04/07/1968

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