Lyndon Johnson actually said...

"I am pleased that I have an opportunity, although I have been somewhat delayed, to discuss with you some of the steps that we are taking together to try to improve our Selective Service System in this..."

"All the studies have found that the country--and the draftees themselves--will be better served if men are inducted at age 19, rather than in the 'oldest first' order of the past."

"We expect this FAIR system to become fully operational before January 1, 1969."

"I have seen the newspaper reports on them."