Monday, July 29, 2019

Johnson's thoughts on war in Vietnam

In early 1965 when newly elected US President Lyndon Johnson had been asked to suply more troops to the battlefield in Vietnam he quipped: 

 "I feel like a jackass caught in a Texas hailstorm. I can't run, I can't hide and I can't make it stop."

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