Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I say this in the full knowledge that he has in the past felt that a number of my proposals were less than divinely inspired--a habit that I am afraid he will retain no matter how many nice things I might say about him here tonight.

Context

Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen

11/19/1967

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