Lyndon Johnson actually said...

"We have not waited for the fighting to end before we have the beginnings of the works of peace."

"As Commander in Chief, you have reason to be proud of the magnificent professional leadership which our men in Vietnam are receiving from General William C. Westmoreland."

"They ought to be conceived as comparable in their way to the large-scale laboratories of the Defense or Atomic Energy establishments."

"I consider this 'other war' as crucial to the future of South Vietnam and Southeast Asia as the military struggle."