Lyndon B. Johnson Quote

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.


Remarks to the 10th National Legislative Conference, Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO (May 3, 1965); reported in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965, book 1, p. 480. - Remarks to the National Legislative Conference (1965)


We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.