Lyndon Johnson actually said...

You can now have self-respect and still provide for your medical bills and your medicine, your nursing care, and things of that kind.

Remarks in San Antonio at the Signing of the Medicare Extension Bill

04/07/1966

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

May God bless you and your loved ones is the wish of your President at this Christmas season.

That is enough meat to feed 50 million people.

We are risking the health of our children and of our families.

This is an intolerable condition in the 20th century in a modern nation that prides itself on reputed leadership of the world.