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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 25, 1966

So, my friends of Oklahoma, your President, your country--all 50 States, more than 300,000 of our finest young men--have taken our stand and we have done so because we believe we had to, because we believe we must.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 25, 1966

I don't know of another nation in the world that wouldn't trade places with us today.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 25, 1966

We must let them know, and we must let the world know, that we are willing to bear the burden of a long struggle to defeat the Communist invasion of South Vietnam.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 25, 1966

You will see, I think, why I think that domestic policy is a good guide to our foreign policy and what we should do abroad.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 25, 1966

So I would remind you that when I went to Washington 35 years ago I saw General MacArthur on a white horse chasing the veterans down Pennsylvania Avenue into the Anacostia Flats.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 25, 1966

The Soviet Union has joined with us in requesting that all of the countries participating in the negotiations be prepared to resume discussions on the 12th day of next month.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 25, 1966

I spoke of other problems that flow not alone from poverty, but from our prosperity.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 25, 1966

Our advantage, I think, then, is that we early discovered that social justice is very efficient.

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