“a stunning failure of leadership”
“This budget is the epitome of 'America Last.'”
“We are unstoppable.”
“Everything will get better.”
“I vowed not to let Israel or America’s friends in the Persian Gulf 'get hurt or fail in any way, shape, or form.'”
“I’m popular”

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On the recordAugust 19, 1966
I think they know that communism must be halted in Vietnam as it was halted in Western Europe, and in Greece and Turkey, and Korea, and the Caribbean, if it is determined to swallow up free peoples and spread its influence in that area, trying to take freedom away from people who do want to select their own leaders for themselves.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas
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Remarks at a Navy League Luncheon, Manchester, New Hampshire.

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