We would be foolish and shortsighted to let foreign problems--even Vietnam--turn us away from our urgent goals at home.
Lyndon Johnson: “We would be foolish and shortsighted to let foreign problems--even Vietnam--turn us away from our urgent goals at home.”
On the recordOctober 14, 1966
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Remarks to a Group of Mayors of the Nation's Larger Cities.
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