Lyndon Johnson actually said...

"Will Rogers once made a very wise observation. He said: 'We are a funny people. We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, and then go home and start daring 'era to make good.'"

"Heart disease, cancer, and stroke can be conquered--not in a millennium, not in a century, but in the next few onrushing decades."

"Today our system, our society--and our Government, of which you are soon to be part--stand as the most successful in the history of man."

"Through most of my career--and through most of your adult lives--the thrust of our public policies and attitudes has been dominated by memory of the stock market crash, the great depression, and the e..."