Lyndon Johnson actually said...

"Side by side we fought with you to protect your right to be sovereign and independent."

"President Johnson expressed his warm admiration for the significant achievements of the Korean Government and people in increasing agricultural production, industrial output, savings, and domestic rev..."

"We expressed our great desire at any time, any place, to transfer our difficulties from the battlefield to the conference room."

"Yet we stood firm behind the principle that the people of Korea--no less than the people of France or Italy--had a right to self-determination."