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Lyndon Johnson: “Their will did not, as expected, break under the fire. Neither shall ours break under frustration.”

On the recordMarch 20, 1968
Their will did not, as expected, break under the fire. Neither shall ours break under frustration.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks to the First Graduating Class at the Foreign Service Institute's Vietnam Training Center.

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