Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I have directed the troops you requested to proceed to O'Hare Field and to Glenview Naval Air Station.

I direct that until interment the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff on all buildings, grounds and naval vessels of the ...

I have hereunto set my hand this fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-eight.

The cause for which he struggled has not fallen.