Lyndon Johnson actually said...

There are pressing and obvious needs in the fight against lawlessness: better trained, better paid, and more effective police forces; fairer and more efficient systems of criminal justice; and--tragically--better means of responding when public order breaks down under the impact of riots.

02/28/1968

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