Lyndon Johnson actually said...

"Hard choices are going to have to be made in the next few days."

"I am glad that Henry Ford, and the mayor of Cleveland, and George Meany can sit here at this table side by side, because they all represent something special to this country-as you do."

"If their position changes--as we fervently hope it will--then we in the United States and our allies are prepared to immediately meet them anywhere, any time, in a spirit of flexibility and understand..."

"The Communists have made it clear that up to now, thus far, they are unwilling to negotiate or to work out a settlement except on the battlefield."