Lyndon Johnson actually said...

"No American army in all of our long history has ever been so compassionate."

"General Westmoreland told me as we were reviewing the troops that no armed forces anywhere, at any time, commanded by any commander in chief, were up to the group that we have in Vietnam now."

"You stand today in a long line of brave men--the kind of men that our Nation has produced when they were needed--the kind of men who fought at Valley Forge and Vicksburg--in the Argonne and at Iwo Jim..."

"We believe we can win this war against hunger."