Lyndon Johnson actually said...

When the history of our times is written the names of scientists such as Einstein, Oppenheimer, von Neumann, Fermi and many others will figure very prominently among those who helped not only to defend this Nation and preserve it, but to build it.

Context

Remarks to Members of the American Physical Society.

04/25/1967

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