Lyndon Johnson actually said...

THIS IS a day of some personal sadness for me.

Remarks at a Televised Ceremony Marking the Change in Leadership at the Department of Commerce.

12/15/1964

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

We stand at the edge of the greatest era in the life of any nation.

This is the kind of America that we are going to build.

He asked you then to make a choice for progress.

This Nation, this people, this generation, has man's first chance to create a Great Society.