Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I would rather be 3 hours late because people wanted to see me than to be 3 hours early because there was nobody there.

Remarks in Manchester to the Members of the New Hampshire Weekly Newspaper Editors Association

09/27/1964

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

I promise you that we are not going to allow them to go on unchecked.

We have been talking about protecting them for a long, long time.

But we can do better.

We are doing something about protecting them today.