Lyndon Johnson actually said...

We increased efforts to encourage American investment in the less-developed countries.

Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Report on Foreign Assistance Programs

10/02/1964

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We cannot accept their logic that tyranny 10,000 miles away is not tyranny to concern us.

And yet they fight on.

Why do these Vietnamese fight on?

I welcome these two brave leaders of the Vietnamese Republic and their colleagues to American soil.