Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I have asked the Secretary of Defense to enroll 100,000 men in this vital program during its second year.

In the Fiscal 1969 Budget, we will have budget outlays of $7.3 billion to provide services for America's 26 million veterans and their famil...

To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan.

I will shortly sign an Executive Order putting the plan into effect.