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Don’t ever argue with me [about health]. I’ll go a hundred million or a billion on health or education. I don’t argue about that any more than I argue about Lady Bird [Mrs. Johnson] buying flour. You got to have to have flour and coffee in your house. Education and health. I’ll spend the goddamn money. I may cut back some tanks. But not on health.
— President Lyndon Johnson, in conversation with Vice President Hubert Humphrey, as quoted in The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office by David Blumenthal and James A. Morone. (Review here.)
