Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I said it would be hoped to be completed by the end of this term, that means by January 1969, we hope.

Meeting With White House Correspondents in the Office of the Press Secretary

08/08/1965

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

By moving together we all move forward.

To retreat from it would, I think, set a chain reaction of counter-protection and retaliation that would put in jeopardy our ability to work...

We must and we will, I hope, keep it that way.

The large enterprises that really shape history take a great deal of time and much hard work.