Lyndon Johnson actually said...

But we are above all a patient Nation and a patient people, and we have the strength, and we have the stability and the success to permit us to be patient.

Context

Remarks at the Swearing In of Arthur J. Goldberg as U.S. Representative to the United Nations.

07/25/1965

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