Lyndon Johnson actually said...

In Asia, the nations from Korea and Japan to Indonesia and Singapore worked behind America's shield to strengthen their economies and to broaden their political cooperation.

Context

Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union.

01/16/1968

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