Considering our history, I think it is understandable why my countrymen are puzzled when someone calls us a 'colonialist' power.
Lyndon Johnson: “Considering our history, I think it is understandable why my countrymen are puzzled when someone calls us a…”
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The President's Toast at a State Dinner in His Honor in Chakri Throne Hall, Bangkok, Thailand
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I know something of the graciousness that the people of this city always show to all of those who come here to visit with them.
We have come to know that we Americans have a profound interest in the independence of men and women at home and men and women all around the world.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-nine and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-third.
Your reward--and it is coming--will be seen in the faces of children who will come down the road that you have helped to open.





