Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Each of these three young men has, in Shakespeare's words, 'borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.'

Context

Remarks at the Presentation of the Young American Medals.

06/23/1966

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