Lyndon Johnson actually said...

"I would be glad to have you give me a memo on what Mr. Gavin and Mr. Kennan advocate and let me look at it, and then I will talk to you and give you my views."

"I don't see that I would be the proper one to judge, because I haven't had the intimacy with them that the members of the Committee have."

"I didn't see anything that I could really catch onto as any great difference between us."

"As far as I am concerned, I will want to call him my Press Secretary and try to satisfy both of you."