Lyndon Johnson actually said...

"Your achievements have singled you out as being men and women of excellence, and excellence is not easy to come by, either in or out of the Government."

"Yet for all the monetary awards that you have sacrificed, I believe that you have gained something more precious."

"Among the many blessings which Americans can count is a corps of Federal civil servants that is unequaled anywhere in the world."

"I hereby designate the International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium as an international organization."