Lyndon Johnson actually said...

"I want to negotiate. I want a political solution. I want--more than any human being in all the world--to see the killing stopped."

"It is clear from our discussions that the friendship that has existed and the close relationship that has existed between our two countries for more than the past two decades will be continued."

"Why can't we have a political settlement? Why can't we understand our fellow human beings? Why can't we negotiate a solution? Why do men have to die?"

"And I ask myself that every morning and I reflect on it every evening."