“How did we get the 1960s? One is tempted to locate the ideological roots of this era in the 1930s. The expansion… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. For I know he lives… — Jack Valenti Copy Share Image
Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably… — Tom Wicker Copy Share Image
I believe that the worst thing the liberals did in this country was the Lyndon Johnson welfare system, which broke up millions… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
“Of the things I had not known when I started out, I think the most important was the degree to which the… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“Martin Luther King Jr. was the greatest movement leader in American history. But, as Hillary Clinton once correctly pointed out, his efforts… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“With a note of sadness, Wicker wrote in 1983 that “the reverence, the childlike dependence, the willingness to follow where the President… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose,… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“He won that election in the byways,” Bill Deason says. Ava Cox says: “That’s what made Lyndon Johnson be elected the first… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“IS WHERE POWER GOES”: the most significant factor in any equation that adds up to political power, Lyndon Johnson had assured his… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
Throughout American history, we have elected presidents who had not been honest man. Warren Harding, Richard Nixon, to some extent, Lyndon Johnson… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Religion's voice has been taken away. It was taken away by Lyndon Johnson in the 1970s because of a dispute he had,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.” — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“The second most powerful man in the country.” All his life Lyndon Johnson had been taking “nothing jobs” and making them into… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
Tell the Truth, and speak from your pay-grade. Don't try to answer questions that would better be directed to the battalion commander… — Hal Moore Copy Share Image
“It is important to note that the Great Reversal preceded the rise of the welfare state in America. Lyndon Johnson’s War on… — Steve Corbett Copy Share Image
Presidents have to decide what their popularity is for. Lyndon Johnson probably understood best that political popularity is a wasting asset. You… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
It may not be too late, whatever happens, if our President, Lyndon Johnson, knew the truth from me. But if I am… — Jack Ruby Copy Share Image
Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons. — Calvin Jillson Copy Share Image
