Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I think it is especially appropriate that this dam should bear the name of that great American, Sam Rayburn.

Remarks by Telephone for the Dedication of the Sam Rayburn Dam in Texas.

05/07/1965

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He stays in jail for one reason only--he stays in jail because he is poor.

I am proud now, as a major step forward, to sign the Bail Reform Act of 1966 into the law of the land.

This system has endured--archaic, unjust, and virtually unexamined--ever since the Judiciary Act of 1789.

This measure does not restrict the power of the courts to detain dangerous persons in capital cases or after conviction.