Johnson's Justification For Vietnam Involvement
Tonight Americans and Asians are dying for a world where each people may choose its own path to change...HTMLBREAKWhy must we take this painful road? Why must this Nation hazard its ease, and its interest, and its power for the sake of a people so far away?HTMLBREAKWe fight because we must fight if we are to live in a world where every country can shape its own destiny. And only in such a world will our own freedom be finally secure.HTMLBREAKThis kind of world will never be built by bombs or bullets. Yet the infirmities of man are such that force must often precede reason, and the waste of war, the works of peace.HTMLBREAKWe wish that this were not so. But we must deal with the world as it is, if it is ever to be as we wish.
President Lyndon B. Johnson articulated which of the following as the primary objective for United States involvement in Vietnam?
A
To initiate the process for a gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Vietnam.
B
To establish a collective defense system among Southeast Asian countries against communist expansion.
C
To prevent the spread of communism and ensure nations could choose their own paths free from external coercion.
D
To promote a substantial increase in defense spending and arms production as part of the Cold War strategy.
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