Lyndon Johnson actually said...

"If that is what they choose, then we shall win a settlement on the battlefield."

"Hard choices are going to have to be made in the next few days."

"If their position changes--as we fervently hope it will--then we in the United States and our allies are prepared to immediately meet them anywhere, any time, in a spirit of flexibility and understand..."

"The Communists have made it clear that up to now, thus far, they are unwilling to negotiate or to work out a settlement except on the battlefield."