Lyndon Johnson actually said...

The United States would never undertake the sacrifice these efforts require if its help were not wanted and requested.

Ours is really an open land, an open society with no walls around it, nothing to hide within it, and we want the world and we want Americans...

I want this Nation to lead the effort to close this gap--not in the next 50 years but in the next 5 years.

I need all the help I can get in that field.