Lyndon Johnson actually said...

This reduction--more than double the amount that I recommended in January--is possible and desirable because Federal tax revenues, responding, we think, very strongly to our expanding economy, are now expected to be about $1 1/2 billion higher both in fiscal 1965 and fiscal 1966 than we estimated only last January.

05/14/1965

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