Lyndon Johnson actually said...

But I know that he also believes, as I do, in the words written many years ago by Sir Walter Scott: 'The races of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. From the time the mother binds the child's head till the moment some kind assistant wipes the brow of the dying, we cannot exist without mutual help.'

Context

Remarks at the Swearing In of William S. Gaud as Administrator, Agency for International Development.

08/02/1966

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