Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“Abraham Lincoln struck off the chains of black Americans, but it was Lyndon Johnson who led them into voting booths, closed democracy’s… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Every politician - FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama - they're all conservative by nature. They are part of the big… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family,… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism,… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
I wasn't part of John Kennedy's vision of the world, or Lyndon Johnson's. I thought of them as anti-Communist imperial monsters. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders… — Bob Gunton Copy Share Image
President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I call upon both Republicans and Democrats to work with us to have a national ID card that is free and accessible.… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
“FDR is the canonized hero of American progressivism. Subsequent Democratic presidents, from Lyndon Johnson to Obama, have all sought to expand the… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Bobby Kennedy's conduct toward Lyndon Johnson was childish and despicable. As the years went on, he displayed nasty, self-pitying, and messianic qualities… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Of course it would be great to have more scientists in Congress. But what I'd love is to have another Lyndon Johnson… — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president - pilloried for the failed… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
President Lyndon Johnson was very, very unpredictable. We never knew for sure what he is going to do next, and he preferred… — Clint Hill Copy Share Image
The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court -… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“For better than thirty years, as a working historian, I have written on leaders I knew, such as Lyndon Johnson, and interviewed… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“President Lyndon Johnson's 10 point formula for success: 1. Learn to remember names. Inefficiency at this point may indicate that your interest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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