Lyndon Johnson actually said...

For they will truly know if we fail at the moment of man's greatest opportunity, the fault will lay not in the stars, but the fault will lay in ourselves.

Context

Remarks at the National Medal of Science Presentation Ceremony.

02/09/1966

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