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I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.


Lyndon B. Johnson

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LYNDON B. JOHNSON This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON He’s [Nixon] like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths and then...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON [The day the Senate passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 the party leaders placed a call to the Whit...
LYNDON JOHNSON Negro poverty is not white poverty, ... Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But t...
LYNDON JOHNSON we just added a couple of zeroes to it.
LYNDON JOHNSON There may be another coup, but I don't know what we can do,
LYNDON JOHNSON I wrote once every two or three weeks for about a year, ... and then about a year ago, I got an e-ma...
LYNDON JOHNSON I blame the politicians, ... The Air Force has a manual on how to fight a war. You hit them as hard ...
LYNDON JOHNSON You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered,...
LYNDON JOHNSON The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
LYNDON JOHNSON I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she...
LYNDON JOHNSON I got the name when I was 13, ... I got in a fight with another boy at a Sunday school picnic. Mr. S...
LYNDON JOHNSON One of every 16 planes was shot down,
LYNDON JOHNSON These forces should be adequate to help meet the rights of citizens to walk peaceably and safely wit...
LYNDON JOHNSON It doesn't hurt him. He likes it.
LYNDON JOHNSON We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs...
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of...
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; s...
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to g...
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its po...
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON The American people have a right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our ow...
STEWART B. JOHNSON Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our...
CHARLES B. JOHNSON Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.
CHARLES B. JOHNSON We won, so what more can you say? We would've liked to break a record, but that didn't happen tonigh...
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