Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I pledge myself in the allotted time to me in the Presidency to use every single resource of the Federal Government to banish crime from the United States of America.

Context

Remarks to the Delegates to the Conference of State Committees on Criminal Administration.

10/14/1966

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