Every President wants to do right.

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) American politician, educator, US President (1963-69)

Quoted in George Christian, The President Steps Down, ch. 1, sec. 3 (1970).
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Christian, who was Johnson's press secretary, says this was a frequent comment by Johnson, who would then go on to defend previous Administrations, Democratic and Republican, from the worst accusations of their then-detractors.