Antedating of "...by the (balls) throat. Their hearts and minds will follow.(1967)

[Sam Clements]

Newspaperarchive is getting better by the day.  Still painful, but getting better.

>From any number of newspapers on 24 May, 1967-A column by Jack Anderson

     "A group of Navy fliers back from Vietnam, at lunch the other day with Rep. Charles Wilson, D-Calif., recalled President Johnson's hurried visit to Vietnam last October.
     They chuckled wryly over the President's plea about winning the hearts and minds of the people. This line seemed to them to be alittle lofty for the war's realities.
     After the Presidential visit, related one of the fliers, Navy crews had painted this slogan on some fighter-bombers: "Grab 'em by the throat The hearts and minds will follow."  

I'm guessing the word "ball" was probably sanitized to "throat."

Sam Clements

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