Lyndon Johnson actually said...

"There was great doubt whether we could have any [election in Vietnam]."

"Hanoi made it very clear in response to my appeal from the Enterprise that their position, in effect, was the same as it has always been."

"There is a different type of criticism. There is a difference between constructive dissent and storm trooper bullying, howling, and taking the law into your own hands."

"We put up. And we are there."