Lyndon Johnson actually said...
The encouragement of greater cooperation and coordination among the nation's 3600 individual electric power systems should result in the economies of large-scale operation benefiting the consumer in every section of the country without regard to whether they are served by privately-owned companies, by municipally-owned systems or by cooperatives.
Context
Letter to the Chairman, Federal Power Commission, in Response to the National Power Survey Report.
12/13/1964