President Lyndon B. Johnson December 17, 1963

President Lyndon B. Johnson Address before the General Assembly of the United Nations December 17, 1963

''The greatest of human problems, and the greatest of our common tasks, is to keep the peace and to save the future. All that we have built in the wealth of nations, and all that we plan to do toward a better life for all, will be in vain if our feet should slip, or our vision falter, and our hopes ended in another worldwide war. If there is one commitment more than any other that I would like to leave with you today, it is my unswerving commitment to the keeping and to the strengthening of the peace. Peace is a journey of a thousand miles, and it must be taken one step at a time.
We know what we want:

The United States wants to prevent the dissemination of nuclear weapons to nations not now possessing them;
The United States wants to press on with arms control and reduction;
The United States wants to cooperate with all the members of this Organization to conquer everywhere the ancient enemies of mankind--hunger, and disease and ignorance;
The United States wants sanity, and security, and peace for all, and above all.
President Kennedy, I am sure, would regard as his best memorial the fact that in his
3 years as President the world became a little safer and the way ahead became a little brighter.''

On August 2, 1964 North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked the destroyer USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin. August 4, a second North Vietnamese PT boat attack was reported on the USS Maddox and her escort, the USS C. Turner Joy, this time in poor weather. There would be debate, then and later, over whether the second attack actually occurred.
President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes against North Vietnam after being given firm assurance that the attack did occur, and he sought a congressional resolution in support of our Southeast Asia policy.
On August 7, with only two dissenting votes in the Senate and none in the House, Congress passed the Southeast Asia Resolution (often called the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution) backing him in taking "all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression." Johnson signed the resolution on August 10.

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[essi8757]

war criminal

[TruthMakesPeace]

"This mission (war and killing) is peace"  LyndonsJohnson . com is a memorial to the ugliest prick we ever had as a president.

[fuhrerlau]

Lyndon B Johnson should be stripped off all the credits he claimed as the president of america. He should be exhumed from his grave and dumped into the Indian ocean and be fed to the sharks.Disgraceful piece of history for the USA and the world.

[73849309378]

Nice speech reader. Too bad he was such a lying hypocrite and murderer, an accessory after the fact in the JFK assassination to say the least. See "Trauma Room One" by Charles Crenshaw.

[univibe23]

I'll give ol' "Killer Johnson" his due. He could read a speech!

[ConspiracyHist]

@ExplorerExperience I salute you Sir. LBJ was a cook and the Lord only knows what kinda torment and shame for his own sins he has going for him now.

[ConspiracyHist]

@ExplorerExperience I salute you Sir. LBJ was a cook and the Lord only knows what kinda torment and shame for his own sins he has going for him now.

[BarryPuppetSoetoro61]

@102LBC It Gave LBJ A Heart Atack!..And the Rest of the Nation Dead Reletives..

[ExplorerExperience]

I was in country in Naval Intelligence in 1965 and discovered we were not allowed to win the war. We could have won the war at any time but the directives from the White House were to perpetuate the war and every commander in that theater knew it. LBJ and his cronies were personally making millions off the US troops they were having killed. Honoring his memory in any way disgusts me.

Richard Nelson, USN, Vietnam combat veteran 1965/ 1966

[devils950003]

@steveforsane What about Vietnam?