“We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.”
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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.
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'