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Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes: When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.
         

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.


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