[VIDEO] May 13, 1965 | LBJ Remarks to Editorial Cartoonists

May 13, 1965 - President Johnson said today that Communist China was opposing a political solution of the war in Vietnam that would be in the interest of North Vietnam. 

Apparently seeking to divide Hanoi and Peking, Johnson termed China uninterested in “the fulfillment of Vietnamese nationalism” or in the cost of continued war to North Vietnam. 

Johnson addressed members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. His speech was televised nationally.

The President said the Chinese objective was “to erode and to discredit America’s ability to help prevent Chinese domination over all of Asia.” 

“In this domination, they shall never succeed,” Johnson said. 

As the President spoke in the East Room of the White House, many of the 150 cartoonists in the audience sketched caricatures of him. Later, he autographed some of them.

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