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. (Lyndon B. Johnson)

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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