Richard Nixon actually said...

It is particularly heartbreaking that even as our flags fly at half-staff in President Truman's memory, another of our leaders has fallen.

Even as we mourn his death, we are grateful for his life, which did so much to make those dreams into realities.

As I said at the dedication of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library, he was a 'partisan of principle.'

To President Johnson, the 'American Dream' was not a catch phrase--it was a reality of his own life.