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.

10/12/1966

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