Remarks at the Civic Center in Butte
10/11/1964
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Our hope is that the North Vietnamese will soon realize that they cannot succeed in taking over South Vietnam and they will turn to the task...
Until that time comes, until peace comes, our course is clear.
If there is a single word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word 'voluntary.'
We are there for another reason, too, and that is because the United States must stand behind its word, even when conditions have added to t...