Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Your objective should be to maximize receipts and to minimize expenditures abroad consistent with the achievement of U.S. objectives.

Memorandum on Balance of Payments and Federal Expenditures Overseas

03/07/1966

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So long as I am permitted to be your President, we will continue to spend whatever is necessary to spend for the security of our people.

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You carry with you the gratitude of an advancing nation, and you take with you the appreciation and the friendship of your President.

There Is hereby established a new 'National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems.'