Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I reject the proposition that government employment is somehow inferior to employment in business, in the professions, in university life, or in any other occupation.

Context

Special Message to the Congress on Increasing Federal Military and Civilian Pay Rates.

05/11/1965

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