Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I am proud now, as a major step forward, to sign the Bail Reform Act of 1966 into the law of the land.

This measure does not restrict the power of the courts to detain dangerous persons in capital cases or after conviction.

This system has endured--archaic, unjust, and virtually unexamined--ever since the Judiciary Act of 1789.

Our Nation stands today at the threshold of a new era in our system of criminal justice.