Lyndon Johnson actually said...

The rise of administrative bodies probably has been the most significant legal trend of the last century .... Perhaps more values today are affected by their decisions than by those of all the courts.

Context

Remarks at the Swearing In of Jerre S. Williams as Chairman, Administrative Conference of the United States.

01/24/1968

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