Lyndon Johnson actually said...

The straight fact is that a fair minimum wage doesn't hurt business in any way.

Today we have met here in the Cabinet Room to see the President sign into law a new minimum wage.--One dollar and sixty cents an hour.

That bill guaranteed a minimum hourly wage--the munificent, magnificent sum of 25 cents an hour--25 cents an hour!

One of the first contributions I made in the legislative field when I came to Washington was when we passed the first minimum wage bill thro...