Lyndon Johnson actually said...

By February 1965 it was unmistakably clear there was armed attack in the most literal sense: South Viet Nam was almost lost to that armed attack.

Letter to Senator Jackson Concerning the Bombing of North Vietnam.

03/01/1967

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I spent yesterday as the guest of your Prime Minister at his summer residence in Bang Saen.

The American people support these goals.

The very name of your great nation means, in my own language, 'land of the free.'

It was for me a very welcome day of rest after the Manila Conference, and after our visit to South Vietnam.