Lyndon Johnson actually said...

"It proclaims our commitment to a better world society--where every person can hope for life's essentials--and be able to find them in peace."

"For they will truly know if we fail at the moment of man's greatest opportunity, the fault will lay not in the stars, but the fault will lay in ourselves."

"I urge all who can help to join us."

"We recognize those accomplishments today by conferring on these men the National Medal of Science, the highest tribute their Government can pay them."