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Lyndon Johnson: “Our goal is peace--the blessed condition that allows each nation to pursue its own purposes:--free of marching invaders…”

On the recordMarch 11, 1968
Our goal is peace--the blessed condition that allows each nation to pursue its own purposes:--free of marching invaders and aggressors;--free of terror in the night;--free of hunger, and ignorance, and crippling disease.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at a Dinner of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

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