Lyndon B Johnson Quotes Vietnam War
In early august 1964 after north vietnamese gunboats allegedly attacked us.
Lyndon b johnson quotes vietnam war. I shall not seek and i will not accept the nomination of my party as your president president lyndon johnson telling the nation on march 31 1968 that he would not seek reelection. Johnson 1963 1964 p11 best books on 139 copy quote you do not take a person who for years has been hobbled by chains and liberate him bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say you are free to compete with all the others and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. Popularity a z. Boys it is just like the alamo.
Yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. The negro says now. Johnson quotes about vietnam war. The onset of that american war in vietnam which was at its most violent between 1965 and 1973 is the subject of these annotated transcripts made from the recordings president lyndon b.
The voice of responsible americans. Positive tomorrow lose win or lose. Johnson taped in secret during his time in the white house. There is no other.
Destroyers in the gulf of tonkin near the coast of north vietnam without provocation johnson ordered retaliatory bombing raids on north vietnamese naval installations and in a televised address to the nation proclaimed we still seek no wider war. If one morning i walked on top of the water across the potomac river the headline that afternoon would read. All quotes age children country education peace politics vietnam war more. We are not about to send american boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
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