Lyndon Johnson actually said...

It calls for a reduction from the preceding year in total administrative budget expenditures.

Annual Budget Message to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1965.

01/20/1964

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

And so do I.

We have stood firm with the Communists in the Tonkin Gulf and at Guantanamo.

So realize that you have one of the most priceless privileges that human beings anywhere have.

But prosperity is worthless unless we keep the peace.