Lyndon Johnson actually said...

May God bless you and your loved ones is the wish of your President at this Christmas season.

The President's Christmas Message to the Men and Women of the Armed Forces.

12/15/1967

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

Our Armed Forces literally could not operate effectively or efficiently without our women.

So here today in the East Room in the White House we will end the last vestige of discrimination--I hope--in our Armed Forces.

We have come here this morning to strike another blow for women's rights.

But even then they were not assured equal opportunity.