Lyndon Johnson actually said...

We have tried since the beginning of this fiscal year to get the managers of our Government to reduce expenditures wherever they possibly could, to eliminate what we thought could be termed 'fat' programs that were obsolete or outmoded.

Context

Remarks Upon Signing the Budget Message for Fiscal Year 1967.

01/23/1966

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