Lyndon Johnson actually said...

For the front lines in the war against crime are in the streets and alleys of the local communities across America.

Message to the American Bar Association's Special Committee on Crime Prevention and Control.

10/29/1967

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

And unless this work wins the day, and unless we are successful in what we are trying to do, we may all be consumed, without discrimination,...

So here he is and he is going to try to reform the HEW.

But I must remind you, and all the world, this morning, that with these rights comes responsibility.

This is going to be one of the three or four or five principal subjects with which this administration will be dealing.