Excerpts
Derrick Z. Jackson
The Boston Globe

Bush: America's objective in Iraq is limited and it is firm. We seek an independent, free, and secure Iraq.
LBJ, 1966: Our purpose is a limited one and that is to permit self-determination for the people of South Vietnam.

Bush: As a proud and independent people, Iraqis do not support an indefinite occupation and neither does America. We're not an imperial power.
LBJ, 1966: We seek neither territory nor bases, economic domination or a military alliance in Vietnam. We fight for the principle of self-determination - that the people of South Vietnam should be able to choose their own course.

Bush: Of course, I want to know why we haven't found any weapon (WMD) yet. But I still know Saddam Hussein was a threat. And the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. There's a historic opportunity here to change the world.
LBJ, 1967: Overall, we are making progress. We are satisfied with that progress. Our allies are pleased with that progress. Every country that I know of in that area that is familiar with what is happening thinks it is absolutely essential that Uncle Sam keep his word and stay there.

Bush: We will succeed in Iraq. We're carring out a decision that has already been made and will not change.
LBJ, 1968: So far as changing our basic strategy, the answer would be no.

Bush: Now is the time and Iraq is the place in which the enemies of the civilized world are testing the will of the civilized world.
LBJ, 1966: The time is now and the place is Vietnam.

Bush, in answer to what his biggest mistake might be: Hmmm. I wish you'd have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it... I'm sure something will pop into my head in the midst of this press conference with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer but it hadn't yet. ... I hope, I don't want to sound like I've made no mistakes. I'm confident I have. I just haven't - you just put me under the spot here and maybe I'm not as quick - as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one.
LBJ: I go to bed every night feeling that I have failed that day because I could not end the conflict in Vietnam.