Lyndon Johnson actually said...

In a short time I am going across the street a few hundred yards to light the Nation's Christmas tree.

Remarks at a Reception for a Group of Veterans of the War in Vietnam.

12/14/1966

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

I don't think the day will ever come when the American people will desert those who stand for them on far-off battlefields in the fight for ...

So such is the spirit of the American soldier this afternoon.

We grew and we prospered because we weren't afraid of frontiers.

The morale of the American fighting man is as high today as it was in 1944, when the 101st Airborne threw back the enemy at Bastogne.