Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I cannot give you a scroll or a medal bearing your new title.

Remarks at a Reception Honoring American Artists, Winners in the Tchaikovsky International Music Competition in Moscow

09/06/1966

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

We proposed to reduce the expenditures by $3 billion.

We have been working this afternoon on the details of the deferments and the withholding that we indicated to Chairman Mills and others back...

This just carries out a commitment that we have made at the time.

We have impounded, or withheld, $750 million.