Lyndon B. Johnson John Hopkins University Speech Johnson made this speech on April 7, 1965, as his Vietnam policy faced
increasing criticism at home and abroad. In this speech he reaffirmed
why the United States was fighting in Vietnam (“for the defense
of freedom”) and made clear that the United States had no hegemonic
ambitions in Asia (“no nation need ever fear that we desire their
land, or to impose our will, or to dictate their institutions”).
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