Lyndon Johnson actually said...
I asked Mr. Black shortly thereafter, as the former distinguished head of the World Bank, and whom I consider one of our greatest living Americans--he gets along with Bill Fulbright and everybody else, even the bankers, the borrowers, and the lenders; he knows how to handle us all--to undertake this problem.
Context
Remarks to the Press Following a Meeting With Eugene R. Black Relating to the Asian Development Bank
10/12/1966