Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Honest mistakes can be forgiven, but it is hard to forgive failures to examine and tighten agency procedures to guard against a recurrence of an error.

Context

Remarks to the Press Following a Cabinet Meeting on Management of the Executive Branch

05/01/1964

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