The President's News Conference
09/07/1966
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Why do these Vietnamese fight on?
There are special pleaders who counsel retreat in Vietnam.
We cannot accept their logic that tyranny 10,000 miles away is not tyranny to concern us.
We will ask the Chief of State, General Thieu, and the Prime Minister, Mr. Ky, to also come there for a visit and to exchange views with us.