Lyndon Johnson actually said...

We must remember that our budgetary costs--our current out-of-pocket expenditures--do not always provide a true measure of the cost of Government activities.

Context

Memorandum Announcing Revised Guidelines Governing Development by the Government of Products or Services for Its Own Use

03/02/1966

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