Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I believe--as did President Kennedy--that the primary impetus needed to move our economy ahead should come, in present circumstances, from an expansion of the private sector rather than the public sector.

Context

Annual Budget Message to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1965.

01/20/1964

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