Lyndon Johnson actually said...

"Whatever we are doing in faraway places--many with strange-sounding names--we are doing it not for power, not for territory, not for dominion, or not for influence."

"We will not use our great power in any reckless or casual manner."

"We know that we must find some way, somehow, a path to peaceful settlement."

"Whether it be in Viet-Nam, where a brave people struggle for their own freedom, or whether it is in the Dominican Republic, where the spoilers of freedom have plundered and killed, this Nation--your c..."