Lyndon Johnson actually said...

What we celebrate on October 12 is not the fact that one Italian discovered America, but that five million American-Italians discovered America.

Remarks at a Columbus Day Dinner in Brooklyn

10/11/1966

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

We passed the civil rights bill in the Senate today by a vote of 73 to 27.

We are marching.

The dreams and the deeds represented by this ceremony prove that the era of the pioneers is not over.

Our strength has been the direct result of the policies that we began in 1961.