Lyndon Johnson actually said...

As President Kennedy said when he visited your capital last year, the unique inter-American system of international cooperation is now demonstrating in this hemisphere that economic prosperity is the handmaiden of political liberty.

Context

Remarks of Welcome at the White House to President Orlich of Costa Rica

06/29/1964

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