Johnson in January 1961 after the newly inaugurated vice president extolled the brilliance of the members of President John F.
“Well, Lyndon, they may be every bit as intelligent as you say, but I’d feel a whole lot better if just one of them had run for sheriff once.” -House Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-TX) speaking to Lyndon B. Eisenhower speaking at a press conference on April 7, 1954. “You have a row of dominoes set up you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.” -President Dwight D. officials believed it ran counter to their long-term objectives for the region. This immediate and vital interest has in consequence taken precedence over active steps looking toward the realization of our objectives in Indochina.” -Department of State, “ Policy Statement on Indochina,” issued on September 27, 1948, explaining why the United States supported French policy in Vietnam even though U.S. “Our long-term objectives are… to see installed a self-governing nationalist state which will be friendly to the US… We have an immediate interest in maintaining in power a friendly French Government, to assist in the furtherance of our aims in Europe.
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