Lyndon Johnson actually said...

"The Federal effort to cope with the problem will be unsparing."

"Requests for flood hazard information may be addressed to the Secretary of the Army or, in the case of lands lying in the basin of the Tennessee River, to the Tennessee Valley Authority."

"A Great Society cannot rest on the achievements of the past."

"I am requesting the appropriate Federal agencies to study these proposals and make recommendations to me for later submission to the Congress."