It is never easy to ask men to leave home and happiness for duty far, far away.
Lyndon Johnson: “It is never easy to ask men to leave home and happiness for duty far, far away.”
On the recordFebruary 16, 1968
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Remarks at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
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