Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
243
AUTHOR:
Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–73)
QUOTATION:
We don’t propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.
ATTRIBUTION:
President LYNDON B. JOHNSON, remarks to the 10th National Legislative Conference, Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, May 3, 1965.—Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965, book 1, p. 480.
