Lyndon Johnson actually said...

For this is the night when we pay formal tribute to a great American institution: the famous system of 'checks and balances.'

Toasts at a Dinner Honoring the Vice President, the Speaker of the House, and the Chief Justice

01/24/1968

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Could anything really be more vital to our children?

But we now possess the tools to reach out into our environment and to shape it to our will.

I wanted you to know that my doctors have recommended that I undergo surgery to repair a defect at the site of the incision made during the ...

Today Congress has put some of those tools in our hands.