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Lyndon Johnson: “The number of South Vietnamese living in areas under Government protection tonight has grown by more than a million…”

On the recordJanuary 16, 1968
The number of South Vietnamese living in areas under Government protection tonight has grown by more than a million since January of last year.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union.

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