Negative Statement Quotes
The statement is reprehensible….If I find out some damn fool aide did it, I’ll fire the sonuvabitch.
Weeks before, President Johnson had directed Joe Califano to leak to the press that government officials considered Bethlehem Steel Company executives who raised prices to be “profiteering from the war in Vietnam.” The story was in the papers, editorials criticized the steel executives, and they became outraged. Then, when a businessman complained to the President about the profiteering charge at this meeting, he acted surprised and made this remark.
