Lyndon Johnson actually said...

You stand today in a long line of brave men--the kind of men that our Nation has produced when they were needed--the kind of men who fought at Valley Forge and Vicksburg--in the Argonne and at Iwo Jima--on the Pusan perimeter and at the 38th parallel.

Context

Remarks to Members of the Armed Forces at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam.

10/25/1966

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