Lyndon Johnson actually said...

For myself, I regard it as the mandate of all our experience that we insure the flourishing of science and technology in America -- as nowhere else on earth.

Context

Remarks at a Meeting of 'Scientists and Engineers for Johnson-Humphrey'

10/05/1964

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