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“When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.” quote by Lyndon B. Johnson — Download Open image

“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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