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Lyndon Johnson: “It is never easy to ask men to leave home and happiness for duty far, far away.”

On the recordFebruary 16, 1968
It is never easy to ask men to leave home and happiness for duty far, far away.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

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