President Lyndon B. Johnson explains his plan to restructure the budgeting of government agencies without raising taxes: "we will take from the haves and give to the have nots." Two years later in a general conference address Apostle Marion G. Romney uses this quote out of context as evidence that Johnson advocates socialism.
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
"Socialism and the United Order Compared" by Elder Marion G. Romney
ReplyDeleteof the Council of the Twelve Apostles, Conference Report, 9 April 1966 (Priesthood Session).