Lyndon Johnson actually said...

"We are trying to do something about it. I am trying to do something about it for the young, for the old, and I hope those of us in the middle can help on it while we can."

"I don't want to have a press conference, but I will take some questions before I leave."

"There are a lot of them in the country. I want to see that they have a nursing home and medical facilities where they can go with their chins up and their chests out-and proud."

"But I wish it had been yesterday. We are too late."