Lyndon Johnson actually said...

There is a very--in my judgment--serious waste of manpower.

Remarks at the Swearing In of Stanley Ruttenberg as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Manpower.

06/16/1966

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General Westmoreland made it clear that we would need additional manpower.

We will do anything we can, with honor, to stop it.

I don't recommend them.

I don't know what proposals His Holiness might make.