Lyndon Johnson actually said...

We can do what America needs done only if we can continue with this prosperous economy, and we just cannot have it continued by wanting it to continue.

Context

Remarks at the Swearing In of Gardner Ackley as Chairman and Arthur Okun as Member of the Council of Economic Advisers

11/15/1964

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