Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I think this is needed for the protection and promotion of peaceful trade, as well as for the welfare of the Hemisphere.

Message to the Congress Transmitting First Annual Report of the Atlantic-Pacific Interoceanic Canal Study Commission.

08/02/1965

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

Together we visited a number of your countries on a mission for President Kennedy.

Violence erupts most often in the nations which are the poorest.

This weekend, in a courtroom in Meridian, Mississippi, we saw another instance of this continuing revolution.

Their mission was trying and difficult.