Lyndon Johnson actually said...

We cannot tolerate poverty in good conscience or in the interest of the future growth and prosperity of our great Nation.

Letter Commending Federal and Local Groups Participating in an Urban Renewal Project in New York City.

10/13/1965

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

You can now have self-respect and still provide for your medical bills and your medicine, your nursing care, and things of that kind.

It is signed by all who attended.

This great city has meant a lot to me, not only in my political philosophy, but a good deal of other philosophy.

But they are not equal if they don't have a chance to read and write, and they don't have a chance for a doctor to take care of their teeth ...