Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I want to tell you as long as I am President, I intend to keep our defenses the best in all the world.

Remarks in Oklahoma City at the Opening of the State Fair

09/24/1964

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

It is tragic that we have tended to neglect these areas amid the rush of metropolitan growth.

This generation of Americans has made an investment without parallel in history in the cause of keeping peace.

We don't have to speculate about the need or about the public demand, because when the first 460 acres were opened in 1962, 600,000 visitors...

If we don't act promptly, and we don't act prudently and progressively, we will face a real crisis in the quality of American life.