Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I urge the Federal Reserve Board, in executing its policy of monetary restraint, and our large commercial banks to cooperate with the President and the Congress to lower interest rates and to ease the inequitable burden of tight money.

Context

Special Message to the Congress on Fiscal Policy.

09/07/1966

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