Lyndon Johnson actually said...

I have decided to propose to the Government of Panama the negotiation of an entirely new treaty on the existing Panama Canal.

Remarks on the Decision To Build a Sea Level Canal and To Negotiate a New Treaty With Panama

12/17/1964

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But we have not yet seen that we can keep our air and our water pure and healthy while we do it.

Government is not big enough to solve the problem of health care.

The problem is to stand firmly with the administration on a foundation of common idealism, while dissenting from those measures which do not...

So I came here tonight to echo this combination of both personal esteem and institutional respect.