Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Will you please report to me, through the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, the specific steps you have taken to provide top level control of your department's purchases during the remainder of the fiscal year, in the context of preventing June buying.

Context

Memorandum on June Buying by Federal Agencies.

05/12/1966

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