Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“This may come as a flash, but Obama ain’t Jesus, and neither is George W. Bush, Lyndon Johnson, or even our beloved… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
I think I governed effectively. I don't have any doubts about that. I had the benefit, when I was in office, of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“In late September 1955, on vacation in Denver, President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in the early hours of the morning. Speculation… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
“The Truly Disadvantaged, the most important book written about poverty in the past three decades. It was Wilson who first observed, famously,… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott Roosevelt, one of Franklin Roosevelt's sons, for a telegram… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Now in my view, if you were to line up the Presidents in the order of who made the greatest accomplishments, you'd… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“All of this goes back to Bill Clinton. It’s not a coincidence that radical welfare reform took place on the same watch… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S.… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
“Lyndon Johnson knew this when he quipped, “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man,… — Nancy Isenberg Copy Share Image
“Lyndon Johnson. The junior congressman saw two things that no one else saw. The first was a possible connection between two groups… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam were perfect for Lyndon Johnson: 220 million against 18 million, water buffalo and all. No risk, really. — David Douglas Duncan Copy Share Image
“LIED-ABOUT WARS Advertising campaigns, marketing schemes. The target is public opinion. Wars are sold the same way cars are, by lying. In… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
“As several historians have pointed out, it would have made little sense for Fidel to do something that would risk having his… — Lamar Waldron Copy Share Image
“But then one evening in November, 1939, the Smiths were returning from Johnson City, where they had been attending a declamation contest,… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It's not Lyndon Johnson who makes the black freedom movement; it's the black freedom movement who makes Lyndon Johnson. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“It is not clear who will bring to the Whitehouse those useful commodities of vivid language, a sense of history and most… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
One wonders if Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon's administrations may come to be viewed, in the future, as having been underestimated in… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
“Little boy crying. "My daddy has been dead for 10 yrs, but he came to town to vote for Lyndon Johnson, and… — Robert Cato Copy Share Image
