Lyndon Johnson actually said...

This is not only $400 million more than your goal, than had been expected, but it occurred at the very same time that you were building up a military force of some 350,000 in Southeast Asia, 10,000 miles away from here, and providing them with all the massive support and materiel that they have required.

07/11/1966

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