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“Norman Mailer on LBJ.” ''Realist'', no. 60 (June), 1, 10–15. Transcription of speech given on 21 May (Vietnam Day) on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. In an accompanying “Author’s Note,” [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]] states that portions of the speech were taken from “my article on the Republican Convention printed in ''Esquire'' in November 1964<ref>[[64.20]]</ref> . . . from a review I did in the ''New York Herald Tribune'' on Lyndon Johnson’s book ''My Hope for America''<ref>[[64.21]]</ref> . . . [and] a fragment from a debate in Chicago with William Buckley.”<ref>[[63.15]]</ref> The final line of ''Why Are We in Vietnam?'' ([[67.15]])—“Vietnam. Hot dam [sic]”—is used in the essay as a way of describing L.B.J.’s relief and excitement at finding an issue to shift the country’s attention from the civil rights movement, except that Mailer reverses the order: “Hot Damn. Viet Nam.”  

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