Lyndon Johnson actually said...

"We have been talking about protecting them for a long, long time."

"Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Sunday, October 9, 1966, as Leif Erikson Day; and I direct the appropriate Government officials to ..."

"No national strategy against crime can succeed if we do not restore more of our first offenders to productive society."

"The best law enforcement has little value if prison sentences are only temporary and embittering way stations for men whose release means a return to crime."