Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Since the birth of the Republic, more than half a million Americans have died for their country on the field of battle.

Proclamation 3740—Veterans Day, 1966

08/30/1966

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

We want to walk and to work at the side of mankind to help him overcome poverty and disease and ignorance and bias and fear.

So long as peril remains we shall remain prepared.

So no wonder this 89th Congress will leap into history as the most effective and the most rewarding Congress in the history of our Nation.

This 89th Congress has leadership--good, strong, wise, experienced, progressive Democratic leadership of the very highest quality.