Lyndon Johnson actually said...

The problem is to stand firmly with the administration on a foundation of common idealism, while dissenting from those measures which do not fulfill these ideals.

Context

Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen

11/19/1967

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