---
title: "144 Lyndon johnson Quotes by 100 authors"
description: "Browse 144 Lyndon johnson quotes by 100 authors. Discover the best Lyndon johnson sayings and thoughts."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d47/neil-young-969_lyndon-johnson_lyndon-johnson-bared-his-scars-american_1206031.jpg"
---

> [“Lyndon Johnson bared his scars, American. . . stars 'n bars.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-young/lyndon-johnson-bared-his-scars-american-stars-n-bars/)

[Neil Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-young/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d47/neil-young-969_lyndon-johnson_lyndon-johnson-bared-his-scars-american_1206031.jpg)

> [Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-caro/lyndon-johnson-as-majority-leader-of-the-united-states-senate-he-made/)

[Robert Caro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-caro/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9f/robert-caro-11059_johnson_lyndon-johnson-as-majority-leader-of-the_1711410.png)

> [Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-j-o-rourke/lyndon-johnson-faced-some-clear-moral-issues/)

[P. J. O'Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-j-o-rourke/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2f/p-j-o-rourke-184_clear_lyndon-johnson-faced-some-clear-moral-is_52624.png)

> [You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyndon-b-johnson/you-might-say-that-lyndon-johnson-is-a-cross-between-a-baptist/)

[Lyndon B. Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lyndon-b-johnson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90c/lyndon-b-johnson-684_baptist_you-might-say-that-lyndon-johnson-is-a-c_945896.png)

> [It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/it-s-kennedy-s-war-vietnam-lyndon-johnson-got-all-the-flak-but-it-s/)

[Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af9/salman-rushdie-153_got_it-s-kennedy-s-war-vietnam-lyndon-johnso_2953406.jpg)

> [Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-moyers/hyperbole-was-to-lyndon-johnson-what-oxygen-is-to-life/)

[Bill Moyers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-moyers/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/027/bill-moyers-2625_hyperbole_hyperbole-was-to-lyndon-johnson-what-oxy_2995605.png)

> [“Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-caro/ask-not-what-you-have-done-for-lyndon-johnson-but-what-you-have-done/)

[Robert A. Caro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-caro/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57c/robert-a-caro-15999_kennedy_ask-not-what-you-have-done-for-lyndon-jo_1132791.jpg)

> [Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dallek/like-lyndon-johnson-president-obama-understands-that-timidity-in-a/)

[Robert Dallek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-dallek/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/626/robert-dallek-3456_failure_like-lyndon-johnson-president-obama-unde_118675.png)

> [“Little boy crying. "My daddy has been dead for 10 yrs, but he came to town to vote for Lyndon Johnson, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-cato/little-boy-crying-my-daddy-has-been-dead-for-10-yrs-but-he-came-to/)

[Robert Cato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-cato/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a0/robert-cato-273347_daddy_little-boy-crying-my-daddy-has-been-dead_3029083.jpg)

> [Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-caro/every-president-has-to-live-with-the-result-of-what-lyndon-johnson/)

[Robert Caro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-caro/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba0/robert-caro-11059_american-people_every-president-has-to-live-with-the-res_2601213.png)

> [Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-maraniss/originally-john-kennedy-was-going-to-come-speak-and-then-lyndon/)

[David Maraniss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-maraniss/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b3/david-maraniss-22930_crisis_originally-john-kennedy-was-going-to-com_169083.jpg)

> [When former president Lyndon B. Johnson unveiled his plans for the program that would become Medicaid, he reflected on the future of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-schatz/when-former-president-lyndon-b-johnson-unveiled-his-plans-for-the/)

[Brian Schatz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-schatz/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f3/brian-schatz-10274_future_when-former-president-lyndon-b-johnson-u_919262.jpg)

> [I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-carville/i-actually-thought-pope-paul-vi-was-the-most-tragic-figure-in-the/)

[James Carville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-carville/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df9/james-carville-2521_church_i-actually-thought-pope-paul-vi-was-the_2026676.png)

> [I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-leinsdorf/i-was-introduced-to-congressman-lyndon-b-johnson-the-young/)

[Erich Leinsdorf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-leinsdorf/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/362/erich-leinsdorf-49397_congressman_i-was-introduced-to-congressman-lyndon-b_2334291.jpg)

> [I'd put the most money on Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson - and not just because we'll probably still be waiting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-edelstein/i-d-put-the-most-money-on-robert-caro-s-biography-of-lyndon-johnson/)

[David Edelstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-edelstein/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08c/david-edelstein-18389_biographies_i-d-put-the-most-money-on-robert-caro-s_2399567.jpg)

> [Yes, Obama took over two wars from Bush - just as President Richard Nixon inherited Vietnam from President Lyndon Johnson and President…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-stephens/yes-obama-took-over-two-wars-from-bush-just-as-president-richard/)

[Bret Stephens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-stephens/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efb/bret-stephens-3977_dwight-eisenhower_yes-obama-took-over-two-wars-from-bush-j_2421468.jpg)

> [Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-r-mcmaster/lyndon-johnson-was-a-profoundly-insecure-man-who-feared-dissent-and/)

[H. R. McMaster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-r-mcmaster/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c70/h-r-mcmaster-16254_goals_lyndon-johnson-was-a-profoundly-insecure_3209645.png)

> [The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-buchanan/the-democrats-drive-to-defeat-neil-gorsuch-is-the-latest-battle-in-a/)

[Pat Buchanan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-buchanan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/469/pat-buchanan-2005_conspiracy_the-democrats-drive-to-defeat-neil-gorsu_482973.jpg)

> [In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-lhota/in-1964-i-tried-to-convince-my-grandfather-who-was-active-in-the-new/)

[Joe Lhota](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-lhota/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/960/joe-lhota-21421_active_in-1964-i-tried-to-convince-my-grandfath_1454123.jpg)

> [I do not think anyone who ever saw Lyndon Johnson give a speech would call him charismatic, even though he was one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-pfeffer/i-do-not-think-anyone-who-ever-saw-lyndon-johnson-give-a-speech-would/)

[Jeffrey Pfeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-pfeffer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/jeffrey-pfeffer-8575_charisma_i-do-not-think-anyone-who-ever-saw-lyndo_1920861.jpg)

> [My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-kearns-goodwin/my-recurring-nightmare-is-that-someday-i-will-be-faced-with-a-panel/)

[Doris Kearns Goodwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-kearns-goodwin/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee7/doris-kearns-goodwin-1951_book_my-recurring-nightmare-is-that-someday-i_2325799.jpg)

> [When I got back to NY had the opportunity to work with the beginning years of the poetry project which was founded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/when-i-got-back-to-ny-had-the-opportunity-to-work-with-the-beginning/)

[Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e05/anne-waldman-4046_able_when-i-got-back-to-ny-had-the-opportunit_2227627.jpg)

> [Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/brainy-folks-were-also-present-in-lyndon-johnson-s-administration/)

[Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d9/thomas-sowell-247_administration_brainy-folks-were-also-present-in-lyndon_447761.jpg)

> [Liberals cling to the idea that critics of welfare are motivated by greed or callous disregard for the less fortunate. In fact,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mona-charen/liberals-cling-to-the-idea-that-critics-of-welfare-are-motivated-by/)

[Mona Charen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mona-charen/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/691/mona-charen-17365_billions_liberals-cling-to-the-idea-that-critics_1570843.jpg)

> [“But then one evening in November, 1939, the Smiths were returning from Johnson City, where they had been attending a declamation contest,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-caro/but-then-one-evening-in-november-1939-the-smiths-were-returning-from/)

[Robert A. Caro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-caro/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c5/robert-a-caro-15999_lyndon-johnson_but-then-one-evening-in-november-1939-th_2886347.jpg)

> [One of the things that I'm doing and I'm - we have the Johnson Amendment. You know what that is. That Lyndon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-trump/one-of-the-things-that-i-m-doing-and-i-m-we-have-the-johnson/)

[Donald Trump](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-trump/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/183/donald-trump-18_amendment_one-of-the-things-that-i-m-doing-and-i-m_2435826.jpg)

> [The view that we know less than we thought we knew about how to change the human condition came, in time, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-q-wilson/the-view-that-we-know-less-than-we-thought-we-knew-about-how-to/)

[James Q. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-q-wilson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df1/james-q-wilson-16701_campaigns_the-view-that-we-know-less-than-we-thoug_1736542.jpg)

> [“There’s a reason you probably haven’t heard much about this aspect of the heartland. This kind of blight can’t be easily blamed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/there-s-a-reason-you-probably-haven-t-heard-much-about-this-aspect-of/)

[Thomas Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-frank/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af5/thomas-frank-4078_first-place_there-s-a-reason-you-probably-haven-t-he_2355132.png)

> [I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nat-hentoff/i-was-very-much-against-the-vietnam-war-and-max-askeli-was-visiting/)

[Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nat-hentoff/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/587/nat-hentoff-1615_cheer_i-was-very-much-against-the-vietnam-war_2131031.png)

> [“This man who in the pursuit of his aims could be so utterly ruthless—who would let nothing stand in his way; who,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-caro/this-man-who-in-the-pursuit-of-his-aims-could-be-so-utterly-ruthless/)

[Robert A. Caro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-caro/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb5/robert-a-caro-15999_betraying_this-man-who-in-the-pursuit-of-his-aims_2527013.jpg)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dick-morris/president-lyndon-johnson-s-administration-was-known-for-his-war-on/)

[Dick Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dick-morris/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e6/dick-morris-4948_administration_president-lyndon-johnson-s-administratio_2766129.png)

> [“President Lyndon Johnson's 10 point formula for success: 1. Learn to remember names. Inefficiency at this point may indicate that your interest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/president-lyndon-johnson-s-10-point-formula-for-success-1-learn-to/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/830/lyndon-johnson-130581_formula-for-success_president-lyndon-johnson-s-10-point-form_585237.jpg)

> [“American DEWAR FAMILY Cameron Dewar Ursula “Beep” Dewar, his sister Woody Dewar, his father Bella Dewar, his mother PESHKOV-JAKES FAMILY George Jakes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-follett/american-dewar-family-cameron-dewar-ursula-beep-dewar-his-sister/)

[Ken Follett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-follett/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03c/ken-follett-941_bass-player_american-dewar-family-cameron-dewar-ursu_2553110.jpg)

> [“It is not clear who will bring to the Whitehouse those useful commodities of vivid language, a sense of history and most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-caro/it-is-not-clear-who-will-bring-to-the-whitehouse-those-useful/)

[Robert A. Caro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-caro/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d4/robert-a-caro-15999_history_it-is-not-clear-who-will-bring-to-the-wh_3008419.jpg)

> [“All of this goes back to Bill Clinton. It’s not a coincidence that radical welfare reform took place on the same watch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/all-of-this-goes-back-to-bill-clinton-it-s-not-a-coincidence-that/)

[Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-taibbi/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/158/matt-taibbi-2257_civil-rights_all-of-this-goes-back-to-bill-clinton-it_2735498.jpg)

> [“In truth, there will never be enough power in the presidency for an incumbent to make good on a purely constructive leadership…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-skowronek/in-truth-there-will-never-be-enough-power-in-the-presidency-for-an/)

[Stephen Skowronek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-skowronek/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/edc/stephen-skowronek-80529_1997_in-truth-there-will-never-be-enough-powe_3086089.jpg)

> [“Cyril H. Wecht, the renowned forensic pathologist, a consultant in numerous high-profile cases, and who also holds a law degree, confirmed the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/captain-hank-bracker-the-exciting-story-of-cuba-2/cyril-h-wecht-the-renowned-forensic-pathologist-a-consultant-in/)

[Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/captain-hank-bracker-the-exciting-story-of-cuba-2/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da8/captain-hank-bracker-the-excit_conspiracy-theories_cyril-h-wecht-the-renowned-forensic-path_1592406.jpg)

> [“Of the things I had not known when I started out, I think the most important was the degree to which the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-halberstam/of-the-things-i-had-not-known-when-i-started-out-i-think-the-most/)

[David Halberstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-halberstam/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/598/david-halberstam-9032_china_of-the-things-i-had-not-known-when-i-sta_840225.jpg)

> [“Martin Luther King Jr. was the greatest movement leader in American history. But, as Hillary Clinton once correctly pointed out, his efforts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-lilla/martin-luther-king-jr-was-the-greatest-movement-leader-in-american/)

[Mark Lilla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-lilla/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e43/mark-lilla-13300_american-history_martin-luther-king-jr-was-the-greatest-m_896417.png)

> [Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-moyers/lyndon-johnson-believed-the-poor-deserved-a-better-life-than-the/)

[Bill Moyers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-moyers/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a36/bill-moyers-2625_better-life_lyndon-johnson-believed-the-poor-deserve_1935346.png)

## Top authors on Lyndon johnson

- [Robert A. Caro 12 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lyndon-johnson/robert-a-caro/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-doris-kearns-goodwin-30222.jpg) Doris Kearns Goodwin 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lyndon-johnson/doris-kearns-goodwin/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bill-ayers-17832.jpg) Bill Ayers 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lyndon-johnson/bill-ayers/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lyndon-johnson/#itemlist",
            "name": "Lyndon johnson Quotes",
            "numberOfItems": 40,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Lyndon Johnson bared his scars, American. . . stars 'n bars.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Neil Young"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-young/lyndon-johnson-bared-his-scars-american-stars-n-bars/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d47/neil-young-969_lyndon-johnson_lyndon-johnson-bared-his-scars-american_1206031.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d47/neil-young-969_lyndon-johnson_lyndon-johnson-bared-his-scars-american_1206031.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d47/neil-young-969_lyndon-johnson_lyndon-johnson-bared-his-scars-american_1206031.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Lyndon Johnson bared his scars, American. . . stars 'n bars.” — Neil Young",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Robert Caro"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-caro/lyndon-johnson-as-majority-leader-of-the-united-states-senate-he-made/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9f/robert-caro-11059_johnson_lyndon-johnson-as-majority-leader-of-the_1711410.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9f/robert-caro-11059_johnson_lyndon-johnson-as-majority-leader-of-the_1711410.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9f/robert-caro-11059_johnson_lyndon-johnson-as-majority-leader-of-the_1711410.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work” — Robert Caro",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "P. J. O'Rourke"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-j-o-rourke/lyndon-johnson-faced-some-clear-moral-issues/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2f/p-j-o-rourke-184_clear_lyndon-johnson-faced-some-clear-moral-is_52624.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2f/p-j-o-rourke-184_clear_lyndon-johnson-faced-some-clear-moral-is_52624.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2f/p-j-o-rourke-184_clear_lyndon-johnson-faced-some-clear-moral-is_52624.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.” — P. J. O'Rourke",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Lyndon B. Johnson"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lyndon-b-johnson/you-might-say-that-lyndon-johnson-is-a-cross-between-a-baptist/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90c/lyndon-b-johnson-684_baptist_you-might-say-that-lyndon-johnson-is-a-c_945896.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90c/lyndon-b-johnson-684_baptist_you-might-say-that-lyndon-johnson-is-a-c_945896.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90c/lyndon-b-johnson-684_baptist_you-might-say-that-lyndon-johnson-is-a-c_945896.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.” — Lyndon B. Johnson",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Salman Rushdie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/it-s-kennedy-s-war-vietnam-lyndon-johnson-got-all-the-flak-but-it-s/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af9/salman-rushdie-153_got_it-s-kennedy-s-war-vietnam-lyndon-johnso_2953406.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af9/salman-rushdie-153_got_it-s-kennedy-s-war-vietnam-lyndon-johnso_2953406.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af9/salman-rushdie-153_got_it-s-kennedy-s-war-vietnam-lyndon-johnso_2953406.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.” — Salman Rushdie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 6,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Bill Moyers"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-moyers/hyperbole-was-to-lyndon-johnson-what-oxygen-is-to-life/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/027/bill-moyers-2625_hyperbole_hyperbole-was-to-lyndon-johnson-what-oxy_2995605.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/027/bill-moyers-2625_hyperbole_hyperbole-was-to-lyndon-johnson-what-oxy_2995605.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/027/bill-moyers-2625_hyperbole_hyperbole-was-to-lyndon-johnson-what-oxy_2995605.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.” — Bill Moyers",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 7,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Robert A. Caro"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-caro/ask-not-what-you-have-done-for-lyndon-johnson-but-what-you-have-done/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57c/robert-a-caro-15999_kennedy_ask-not-what-you-have-done-for-lyndon-jo_1132791.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57c/robert-a-caro-15999_kennedy_ask-not-what-you-have-done-for-lyndon-jo_1132791.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57c/robert-a-caro-15999_kennedy_ask-not-what-you-have-done-for-lyndon-jo_1132791.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.” — Robert A. Caro",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 8,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Robert Dallek"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-dallek/like-lyndon-johnson-president-obama-understands-that-timidity-in-a/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/626/robert-dallek-3456_failure_like-lyndon-johnson-president-obama-unde_118675.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/626/robert-dallek-3456_failure_like-lyndon-johnson-president-obama-unde_118675.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/626/robert-dallek-3456_failure_like-lyndon-johnson-president-obama-unde_118675.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for…” — Robert Dallek",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 9,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Little boy crying. \"My daddy has been dead for 10 yrs, but he came to town to vote for Lyndon Johnson, and didn't come to see me.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Robert Cato"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-cato/little-boy-crying-my-daddy-has-been-dead-for-10-yrs-but-he-came-to/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a0/robert-cato-273347_daddy_little-boy-crying-my-daddy-has-been-dead_3029083.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a0/robert-cato-273347_daddy_little-boy-crying-my-daddy-has-been-dead_3029083.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a0/robert-cato-273347_daddy_little-boy-crying-my-daddy-has-been-dead_3029083.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Little boy crying. \"My daddy has been dead for 10 yrs, but he came to town to vote for Lyndon Johnson, and…” — Robert Cato",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 10,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Robert Caro"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-caro/every-president-has-to-live-with-the-result-of-what-lyndon-johnson/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba0/robert-caro-11059_american-people_every-president-has-to-live-with-the-res_2601213.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba0/robert-caro-11059_american-people_every-president-has-to-live-with-the-res_2601213.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba0/robert-caro-11059_american-people_every-president-has-to-live-with-the-res_2601213.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust…” — Robert Caro",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 11,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "David Maraniss"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-maraniss/originally-john-kennedy-was-going-to-come-speak-and-then-lyndon/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b3/david-maraniss-22930_crisis_originally-john-kennedy-was-going-to-com_169083.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b3/david-maraniss-22930_crisis_originally-john-kennedy-was-going-to-com_169083.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b3/david-maraniss-22930_crisis_originally-john-kennedy-was-going-to-com_169083.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62…” — David Maraniss",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 12,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "When former president Lyndon B. Johnson unveiled his plans for the program that would become Medicaid, he reflected on the future of public policy in the United States.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Brian Schatz"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-schatz/when-former-president-lyndon-b-johnson-unveiled-his-plans-for-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f3/brian-schatz-10274_future_when-former-president-lyndon-b-johnson-u_919262.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f3/brian-schatz-10274_future_when-former-president-lyndon-b-johnson-u_919262.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f3/brian-schatz-10274_future_when-former-president-lyndon-b-johnson-u_919262.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“When former president Lyndon B. Johnson unveiled his plans for the program that would become Medicaid, he…” — Brian Schatz",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 13,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "James Carville"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-carville/i-actually-thought-pope-paul-vi-was-the-most-tragic-figure-in-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df9/james-carville-2521_church_i-actually-thought-pope-paul-vi-was-the_2026676.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df9/james-carville-2521_church_i-actually-thought-pope-paul-vi-was-the_2026676.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df9/james-carville-2521_church_i-actually-thought-pope-paul-vi-was-the_2026676.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a…” — James Carville",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 14,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Erich Leinsdorf"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-leinsdorf/i-was-introduced-to-congressman-lyndon-b-johnson-the-young/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/362/erich-leinsdorf-49397_congressman_i-was-introduced-to-congressman-lyndon-b_2334291.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/362/erich-leinsdorf-49397_congressman_i-was-introduced-to-congressman-lyndon-b_2334291.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/362/erich-leinsdorf-49397_congressman_i-was-introduced-to-congressman-lyndon-b_2334291.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.” — Erich Leinsdorf",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 15,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I'd put the most money on Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson - and not just because we'll probably still be waiting for the final volume in 2017.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "David Edelstein"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-edelstein/i-d-put-the-most-money-on-robert-caro-s-biography-of-lyndon-johnson/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08c/david-edelstein-18389_biographies_i-d-put-the-most-money-on-robert-caro-s_2399567.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08c/david-edelstein-18389_biographies_i-d-put-the-most-money-on-robert-caro-s_2399567.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08c/david-edelstein-18389_biographies_i-d-put-the-most-money-on-robert-caro-s_2399567.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I'd put the most money on Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson - and not just because we'll probably…” — David Edelstein",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 16,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Yes, Obama took over two wars from Bush - just as President Richard Nixon inherited Vietnam from President Lyndon Johnson and President Dwight Eisenhower inherited Korea from President Harry Truman. But at least the war in Iraq was all but won by 2009, thanks largely to the very surge Obama had opposed as a senator.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Bret Stephens"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-stephens/yes-obama-took-over-two-wars-from-bush-just-as-president-richard/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efb/bret-stephens-3977_dwight-eisenhower_yes-obama-took-over-two-wars-from-bush-j_2421468.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efb/bret-stephens-3977_dwight-eisenhower_yes-obama-took-over-two-wars-from-bush-j_2421468.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efb/bret-stephens-3977_dwight-eisenhower_yes-obama-took-over-two-wars-from-bush-j_2421468.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Yes, Obama took over two wars from Bush - just as President Richard Nixon inherited Vietnam from President…” — Bret Stephens",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 17,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "H. R. McMaster"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-r-mcmaster/lyndon-johnson-was-a-profoundly-insecure-man-who-feared-dissent-and/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c70/h-r-mcmaster-16254_goals_lyndon-johnson-was-a-profoundly-insecure_3209645.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c70/h-r-mcmaster-16254_goals_lyndon-johnson-was-a-profoundly-insecure_3209645.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c70/h-r-mcmaster-16254_goals_lyndon-johnson-was-a-profoundly-insecure_3209645.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965…” — H. R. McMaster",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 18,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court - a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Pat Buchanan"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-buchanan/the-democrats-drive-to-defeat-neil-gorsuch-is-the-latest-battle-in-a/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/469/pat-buchanan-2005_conspiracy_the-democrats-drive-to-defeat-neil-gorsu_482973.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/469/pat-buchanan-2005_conspiracy_the-democrats-drive-to-defeat-neil-gorsu_482973.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/469/pat-buchanan-2005_conspiracy_the-democrats-drive-to-defeat-neil-gorsu_482973.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme…” — Pat Buchanan",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 19,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson because at the time I thought his approach to limited government was right on.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joe Lhota"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-lhota/in-1964-i-tried-to-convince-my-grandfather-who-was-active-in-the-new/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/960/joe-lhota-21421_active_in-1964-i-tried-to-convince-my-grandfath_1454123.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/960/joe-lhota-21421_active_in-1964-i-tried-to-convince-my-grandfath_1454123.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/960/joe-lhota-21421_active_in-1964-i-tried-to-convince-my-grandfath_1454123.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote…” — Joe Lhota",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 20,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I do not think anyone who ever saw Lyndon Johnson give a speech would call him charismatic, even though he was one of the most effective presidents in U.S. history. Same with Lincoln. Charisma is only one source of power, and probably not a very important one, at that.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Jeffrey Pfeffer"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-pfeffer/i-do-not-think-anyone-who-ever-saw-lyndon-johnson-give-a-speech-would/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/jeffrey-pfeffer-8575_charisma_i-do-not-think-anyone-who-ever-saw-lyndo_1920861.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/jeffrey-pfeffer-8575_charisma_i-do-not-think-anyone-who-ever-saw-lyndo_1920861.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/jeffrey-pfeffer-8575_charisma_i-do-not-think-anyone-who-ever-saw-lyndo_1920861.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I do not think anyone who ever saw Lyndon Johnson give a speech would call him charismatic, even though he…” — Jeffrey Pfeffer",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 21,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Doris Kearns Goodwin"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-kearns-goodwin/my-recurring-nightmare-is-that-someday-i-will-be-faced-with-a-panel/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee7/doris-kearns-goodwin-1951_book_my-recurring-nightmare-is-that-someday-i_2325799.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee7/doris-kearns-goodwin-1951_book_my-recurring-nightmare-is-that-someday-i_2325799.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee7/doris-kearns-goodwin-1951_book_my-recurring-nightmare-is-that-someday-i_2325799.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and…” — Doris Kearns Goodwin",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 22,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "When I got back to NY had the opportunity to work with the beginning years of the poetry project which was founded with money from the OEO under Lyndon Johnson to work with alienated youth on the lower East side. This was extraordinary, to be able to help then to create a culture that would capture the energy that I felt at Berkley.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Anne Waldman"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/when-i-got-back-to-ny-had-the-opportunity-to-work-with-the-beginning/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e05/anne-waldman-4046_able_when-i-got-back-to-ny-had-the-opportunit_2227627.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e05/anne-waldman-4046_able_when-i-got-back-to-ny-had-the-opportunit_2227627.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e05/anne-waldman-4046_able_when-i-got-back-to-ny-had-the-opportunit_2227627.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“When I got back to NY had the opportunity to work with the beginning years of the poetry project which was…” — Anne Waldman",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 23,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Thomas Sowell"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/brainy-folks-were-also-present-in-lyndon-johnson-s-administration/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d9/thomas-sowell-247_administration_brainy-folks-were-also-present-in-lyndon_447761.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d9/thomas-sowell-247_administration_brainy-folks-were-also-present-in-lyndon_447761.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d9/thomas-sowell-247_administration_brainy-folks-were-also-present-in-lyndon_447761.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where…” — Thomas Sowell",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 24,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Liberals cling to the idea that critics of welfare are motivated by greed or callous disregard for the less fortunate.  In fact, during the twenty-five years that followed Lyndon Johnson's declaration of war on poverty, U.S. tax payers spent $3 trillion providing every conceivable support for the poor, the elderly, and the infirm.  Private foundations spent scores of billions more, and private and religious charities even more. Nevertheless, as Ronald Raegan later quipped, 'in the war on poverty, poverty won.'",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Mona Charen"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mona-charen/liberals-cling-to-the-idea-that-critics-of-welfare-are-motivated-by/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/691/mona-charen-17365_billions_liberals-cling-to-the-idea-that-critics_1570843.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/691/mona-charen-17365_billions_liberals-cling-to-the-idea-that-critics_1570843.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/691/mona-charen-17365_billions_liberals-cling-to-the-idea-that-critics_1570843.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Liberals cling to the idea that critics of welfare are motivated by greed or callous disregard for the less…” — Mona Charen",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 25,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“But then one evening in November, 1939, the Smiths were returning from Johnson City, where they had been attending a declamation contest, and as they neared their farmhouse, something was different. “Oh my God,” her mother said. “The house is on fire!” But as they got closer, they saw the light wasn’t fire. “No, Mama,” Evelyn said. “The lights are on.” They were on all over the Hill Country. “And all over the Hill Country,” Stella Gliddon says, “people began to name their kids for Lyndon Johnson.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Robert A. Caro"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-caro/but-then-one-evening-in-november-1939-the-smiths-were-returning-from/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c5/robert-a-caro-15999_lyndon-johnson_but-then-one-evening-in-november-1939-th_2886347.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c5/robert-a-caro-15999_lyndon-johnson_but-then-one-evening-in-november-1939-th_2886347.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c5/robert-a-caro-15999_lyndon-johnson_but-then-one-evening-in-november-1939-th_2886347.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“But then one evening in November, 1939, the Smiths were returning from Johnson City, where they had been…” — Robert A. Caro",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 26,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "One of the things that I'm doing and I'm - we have the Johnson Amendment. You know what that is. That Lyndon Johnson in the 1950s passed an amendment because supposedly he was having a hard time with a church in Houston, with a pastor. And he passed an amendment saying basically if you're a pastor, if you're a religious person, you cannot get up and talk politics.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Donald Trump"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-trump/one-of-the-things-that-i-m-doing-and-i-m-we-have-the-johnson/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/183/donald-trump-18_amendment_one-of-the-things-that-i-m-doing-and-i-m_2435826.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/183/donald-trump-18_amendment_one-of-the-things-that-i-m-doing-and-i-m_2435826.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/183/donald-trump-18_amendment_one-of-the-things-that-i-m-doing-and-i-m_2435826.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“One of the things that I'm doing and I'm - we have the Johnson Amendment. You know what that is. That Lyndon…” — Donald Trump",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 27,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "The view that we know less than we thought we knew about how to change the human condition came, in time, to be called neoconservatism. Many ... , myself included, disliked the term because we did not think we were conservative, neo or paleo. (I voted for John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey and worked in the latter's presidential campaign.) It would have been better if we had been called policy skeptics; that is, people who thought it was hard, though not impossible, to make useful and important changes in public policy.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "James Q. Wilson"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-q-wilson/the-view-that-we-know-less-than-we-thought-we-knew-about-how-to/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df1/james-q-wilson-16701_campaigns_the-view-that-we-know-less-than-we-thoug_1736542.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df1/james-q-wilson-16701_campaigns_the-view-that-we-know-less-than-we-thoug_1736542.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df1/james-q-wilson-16701_campaigns_the-view-that-we-know-less-than-we-thoug_1736542.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The view that we know less than we thought we knew about how to change the human condition came, in time, to…” — James Q. Wilson",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 28,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“There’s a reason you probably haven’t heard much about this aspect of the heartland. This kind of blight can’t be easily blamed on the usual suspects like government or counterculture or high-hat urban policy. The villain that did this to my home state wasn’t the Supreme Court or Lyndon Johnson, showering dollars on the poor or putting criminals back on the street. The culprit is the conservatives’ beloved free-market capitalism, a system that, at its most unrestrained, has little use for smalltown merchants or the agricultural system that supported the small towns in the first place…”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Thomas Frank"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/there-s-a-reason-you-probably-haven-t-heard-much-about-this-aspect-of/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af5/thomas-frank-4078_first-place_there-s-a-reason-you-probably-haven-t-he_2355132.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af5/thomas-frank-4078_first-place_there-s-a-reason-you-probably-haven-t-he_2355132.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af5/thomas-frank-4078_first-place_there-s-a-reason-you-probably-haven-t-he_2355132.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“There’s a reason you probably haven’t heard much about this aspect of the heartland. This kind of blight…” — Thomas Frank",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 29,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on, writing editorials. And in The Voice one day I once referred to him as Commander Askeli. And I called in to The Reporter to go over the galleys of a music piece I had written, and the editor whispered to me, 'It's not gonna run. You're not gonna run. Max Askeli has fired you because of what you said about him.'",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Nat Hentoff"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nat-hentoff/i-was-very-much-against-the-vietnam-war-and-max-askeli-was-visiting/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/587/nat-hentoff-1615_cheer_i-was-very-much-against-the-vietnam-war_2131031.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/587/nat-hentoff-1615_cheer_i-was-very-much-against-the-vietnam-war_2131031.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/587/nat-hentoff-1615_cheer_i-was-very-much-against-the-vietnam-war_2131031.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House…” — Nat Hentoff",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 30,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“This man who in the pursuit of his aims could be so utterly ruthless—who would let nothing stand in his way; who, in the pursuit, deceived, and betrayed and cheated—would be deceiving and betraying and cheating on behalf of something other than himself: specifically, on behalf of the sixteen million Americans whose skins were dark. All through Lyndon Johnson’s political life—as”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Robert A. Caro"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-caro/this-man-who-in-the-pursuit-of-his-aims-could-be-so-utterly-ruthless/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb5/robert-a-caro-15999_betraying_this-man-who-in-the-pursuit-of-his-aims_2527013.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb5/robert-a-caro-15999_betraying_this-man-who-in-the-pursuit-of-his-aims_2527013.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb5/robert-a-caro-15999_betraying_this-man-who-in-the-pursuit-of-his-aims_2527013.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“This man who in the pursuit of his aims could be so utterly ruthless—who would let nothing stand in his way…” — Robert A. Caro",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 31,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "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 speaking, of course, of Obama's plans to hike income taxes on the most wealthy 2 or 3 percent of the nation. He's not just raising the top rate to 39.6 percent; he's also disallowing about one-third of top earner's deductions, whether for state and local taxes, charitable contributions or mortgage interest. This is an effective hike in their taxes by an average of about 20 percent.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Dick Morris"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dick-morris/president-lyndon-johnson-s-administration-was-known-for-his-war-on/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e6/dick-morris-4948_administration_president-lyndon-johnson-s-administratio_2766129.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e6/dick-morris-4948_administration_president-lyndon-johnson-s-administratio_2766129.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e6/dick-morris-4948_administration_president-lyndon-johnson-s-administratio_2766129.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become…” — Dick Morris",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 32,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“President Lyndon Johnson's 10 point formula for success: 1. Learn to remember names. Inefficiency at this point may indicate that your interest is not sufficiently outgoing. 2. Be a comfortable person so there is no strain in being with you. Be an old-shoe, old-hat kind of individual. 3. Acquire the quality of relaxed easy-going so that things do not ruffle you. 4. Don't be egotistical. Guard against the impression that you know it all. 5. Cultivate the quality of being interesting so people will get something of value from their association with you. 6. Study to get the \"scratchy\" elements out of your personality, even those of which you may be unconscious. 7. Sincerely attempt to heal, on an honest Christian basis, every msiunderstanding you have had or now have. Drain off your grievances. 8. Practice liking people until you learn to do so genuinely. 9. Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement, or express sympathy in sorrow or disappointment. 10. Give spiritual strength to people, and they will give genuine affection to you.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Anonymous"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/president-lyndon-johnson-s-10-point-formula-for-success-1-learn-to/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/830/lyndon-johnson-130581_formula-for-success_president-lyndon-johnson-s-10-point-form_585237.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/830/lyndon-johnson-130581_formula-for-success_president-lyndon-johnson-s-10-point-form_585237.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/830/lyndon-johnson-130581_formula-for-success_president-lyndon-johnson-s-10-point-form_585237.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“President Lyndon Johnson's 10 point formula for success: 1. Learn to remember names. Inefficiency at this…” — Anonymous",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 33,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“American DEWAR FAMILY Cameron Dewar Ursula “Beep” Dewar, his sister Woody Dewar, his father Bella Dewar, his mother PESHKOV-JAKES FAMILY George Jakes Jacky Jakes, his mother Greg Peshkov, his father Lev Peshkov, his grandfather Marga, his grandmother MARQUAND FAMILY Verena Marquand Percy Marquand, her father Babe Lee, her mother CIA Florence Geary Tony Savino Tim Tedder, semiretired Keith Dorset OTHERS Maria Summers Joseph Hugo, FBI Larry Mawhinney, Pentagon Nelly Fordham, old flame of Greg Peshkov Dennis Wilson, aide to Bobby Kennedy Skip Dickerson, aide to Lyndon Johnson Leopold “Lee” Montgomery, reporter Herb Gould, television journalist on This Day Suzy Cannon, gossip reporter Frank Lindeman, television network owner REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTERS John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth U.S. president Jackie, his wife Bobby Kennedy, his brother Dave Powers, assistant to President Kennedy Pierre Salinger, President Kennedy’s press officer Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Lyndon B. Johnson, thirty-sixth U.S. president Richard Nixon, thirty-seventh U.S. president Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth U.S. president Ronald Reagan, fortieth U.S. president George H. W. Bush, forty-first U.S. president British LECKWITH-WILLIAMS FAMILY Dave Williams Evie Williams, his sister Daisy Williams, his mother Lloyd Williams, M.P., his father Eth Leckwith, Dave’s grandmother MURRAY FAMILY Jasper Murray Anna Murray, his sister Eva Murray, his mother MUSICIANS IN THE GUARDSMEN AND PLUM NELLIE Lenny, Dave Williams’s cousin Lew, drummer Buzz, bass player Geoffrey, lead guitarist OTHERS Earl Fitzherbert, called Fitz Sam Cakebread, friend of Jasper Murray Byron Chesterfield (real name Brian Chesnowitz), music agent Hank Remington (real name Harry Riley), pop star Eric Chapman, record company executive German FRANCK FAMILY Rebecca Hoffmann Carla Franck, Rebecca’s adoptive mother Werner Franck, Rebecca’s adoptive father Walli Franck, son of Carla Lili Franck, daughter of Werner and Carla Maud von Ulrich, née Fitzherbert, Carla’s mother Hans Hoffmann, Rebecca’s husband OTHERS Bernd Held, schoolteacher Karolin Koontz, folksinger Odo Vossler, clergyman REAL HISTORICAL PEOPLE Walter Ulbricht, first secretary of the Socialist Unity Party (Communist) Erich Honecker, Ulbricht’s successor Egon Krenz, successor to Honecker Polish Stanislaw “Staz” Pawlak, army officer Lidka, girlfriend of Cam Dewar Danuta Gorski, Solidarity activist REAL HISTORICAL PEOPLE Anna Walentynowicz, crane driver Lech Wałesa, leader of the trade union Solidarity General Jaruzelski, prime minister Russian DVORKIN-PESHKOV FAMILY Tanya Dvorkin, journalist Dimka Dvorkin, Kremlin aide, Tanya’s twin brother Anya Dvorkin, their mother Grigori Peshkov, their grandfather Katerina Peshkov, their grandmother Vladimir, always called Volodya, their uncle Zoya, Volodya’s wife Nina, Dimka’s girlfriend OTHERS Daniil Antonov, features editor at TASS Pyotr Opotkin, features editor in chief Vasili Yenkov, dissident Natalya Smotrov, official in the Foreign Ministry”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Ken Follett"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-follett/american-dewar-family-cameron-dewar-ursula-beep-dewar-his-sister/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03c/ken-follett-941_bass-player_american-dewar-family-cameron-dewar-ursu_2553110.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03c/ken-follett-941_bass-player_american-dewar-family-cameron-dewar-ursu_2553110.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03c/ken-follett-941_bass-player_american-dewar-family-cameron-dewar-ursu_2553110.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“American DEWAR FAMILY Cameron Dewar Ursula “Beep” Dewar, his sister Woody Dewar, his father Bella Dewar, his…” — Ken Follett",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 34,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“It is not clear who will bring to the Whitehouse those useful commodities of vivid language, a sense of history and most important - a sense of humour, but Johnson himself will provide many other attributes. He is effective precisely because he is so determined, industrious, personal and even humourless, particularly in dealing with Congress. (…) Kennedy had a detached and even donnish willingness to grant a merit in the other fellow’s argument. Johnson is not so inclined to retreat and grants nothing in an argument, not even equal time. Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately. This may not be the most attractive quality of the new administration but it works. The lovers of style are not too happy with the new administration, but the lovers of substance are not complaining.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Robert A. Caro"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-caro/it-is-not-clear-who-will-bring-to-the-whitehouse-those-useful/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d4/robert-a-caro-15999_history_it-is-not-clear-who-will-bring-to-the-wh_3008419.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d4/robert-a-caro-15999_history_it-is-not-clear-who-will-bring-to-the-wh_3008419.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d4/robert-a-caro-15999_history_it-is-not-clear-who-will-bring-to-the-wh_3008419.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“It is not clear who will bring to the Whitehouse those useful commodities of vivid language, a sense of…” — Robert A. Caro",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 35,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“All of this goes back to Bill Clinton. It’s not a coincidence that radical welfare reform took place on the same watch that also saw a radical deregulation of the financial services industry. Clinton was a man born with a keen nose for two things: women with low self-esteem and political opportunity. When he was in the middle of a tough primary fight in 1992 and came out with a speech promising to “end welfare as we know it,” he could immediately smell the political possibilities, and it wasn’t long before this was a major plank in his convention speech (and soon in his first State of the Union address). Clinton understood that putting the Democrats back in the business of banging on black dependency would allow his party to reseize the political middle that Democrats had lost when Lyndon Johnson threw the weight of the White House behind the civil rights effort and the War on Poverty.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Matt Taibbi"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-taibbi/all-of-this-goes-back-to-bill-clinton-it-s-not-a-coincidence-that/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/158/matt-taibbi-2257_civil-rights_all-of-this-goes-back-to-bill-clinton-it_2735498.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/158/matt-taibbi-2257_civil-rights_all-of-this-goes-back-to-bill-clinton-it_2735498.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/158/matt-taibbi-2257_civil-rights_all-of-this-goes-back-to-bill-clinton-it_2735498.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“All of this goes back to Bill Clinton. It’s not a coincidence that radical welfare reform took place on the…” — Matt Taibbi",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 36,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“In truth, there will never be enough power in the presidency for an incumbent to make good on a purely constructive leadership project, and it is unlikely that there will ever be another president stretched so thinly by a determination to use great power to do just that. Lyndon Johnson was a full-service president who had at his disposal an alignment of political resources, economic resources, international resources, and military resources unmatched in the annals of presidential history. The problem is that in a full-service presidency, where no interest of political significance is denied a modicum of legitimacy, resources turn fickle; the exercise of power consumes authority. Committed to a wholly affirmative result, Johnson could not rest content to let anyone carry the brunt of change.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Stephen Skowronek"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-skowronek/in-truth-there-will-never-be-enough-power-in-the-presidency-for-an/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/edc/stephen-skowronek-80529_1997_in-truth-there-will-never-be-enough-powe_3086089.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/edc/stephen-skowronek-80529_1997_in-truth-there-will-never-be-enough-powe_3086089.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/edc/stephen-skowronek-80529_1997_in-truth-there-will-never-be-enough-powe_3086089.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“In truth, there will never be enough power in the presidency for an incumbent to make good on a purely…” — Stephen Skowronek",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 37,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Cyril H. Wecht, the renowned forensic pathologist, a consultant in numerous high-profile cases, and who also holds a law degree, confirmed the theory that there were two gunmen involved in the assassination and that the second shooter was most likely behind the picket fence near the top of a prominent grassy knoll. Even President Lyndon Johnson is said to have implicated the CIA in assassination attempts against Fidel Castro. Some attempts involving the Mafia are said to date back to the Eisenhower years. A 2009 CBS News poll stated that 76% of people believed that Kennedy’s death was orchestrated by the Cuban government in retaliation for the CIA’s efforts to kill Castro. President Johnson told his former speechwriter, Leo Janos of Time magazine, that he “never believed that Oswald acted alone.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Captain Hank Bracker, \"The Exciting Story of Cuba"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/captain-hank-bracker-the-exciting-story-of-cuba-2/cyril-h-wecht-the-renowned-forensic-pathologist-a-consultant-in/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da8/captain-hank-bracker-the-excit_conspiracy-theories_cyril-h-wecht-the-renowned-forensic-path_1592406.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da8/captain-hank-bracker-the-excit_conspiracy-theories_cyril-h-wecht-the-renowned-forensic-path_1592406.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da8/captain-hank-bracker-the-excit_conspiracy-theories_cyril-h-wecht-the-renowned-forensic-path_1592406.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Cyril H. Wecht, the renowned forensic pathologist, a consultant in numerous high-profile cases, and who also…” — Captain Hank Bracker, \"The Exciting Story of Cuba",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 38,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Of the things I had not known when I started out, I think the most important was the degree to which the legacy of the McCarthy period still lived. It had been almost seven years since Joe McCarthy had been censured when John Kennedy took office, and most people believed that his hold on Washington was over. ... among the top Democrats, against whom the issue of being soft on Communism might be used, and among the Republicans, who might well use the charge, it was still live ammunition. ... McCarthyism still lingered ... The real McCarthyism went deeper in the American grain than most people wanted to admit ... The Republicans’ long, arid period out of office [twenty years, ended by the Eisenhower administration], accentuated by Truman’s 1948 defeat of Dewey, had permitted the out-party in its desperation, to accuse the leaders of the governing party of treason. The Democrats, in the wake of the relentless sustained attacks on Truman and Acheson over their policies in Asia, came to believe that they had lost the White House when they lost China. Long after McCarthy himself was gone, the fear of being accused of being soft on Communism lingered among the Democratic leaders. The Republicans had, of course, offered no alternative policy on China (the last thing they had wanted to do was suggest sending American boys to fight for China) and indeed there was no policy to offer, for China was never ours, events there were well outside our control, and our feudal proxies had been swept away by the forces of history. But in the political darkness of the time it had been easy to blame the Democrats for the ebb and flow of history. The fear generated in those days lasted a long time, and Vietnam was to be something of an instant replay after China. The memory of the fall of China and what it did to the Democrats, was, I think, more bitter for Lyndon Johnson than it was for John Kennedy. Johnson, taking over after Kennedy was murdered and after the Kennedy patched-up advisory commitment had failed, vowed that he was not going to be the President of the United States who lost the Great Society because he lost Saigon. In the end it would take the tragedy of the Vietnam War and the election of Richard Nixon (the only political figure who could probably go to China without being Red-baited by Richard Nixon) to exorcise those demons, and to open the door to China.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "David Halberstam"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-halberstam/of-the-things-i-had-not-known-when-i-started-out-i-think-the-most/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/598/david-halberstam-9032_china_of-the-things-i-had-not-known-when-i-sta_840225.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/598/david-halberstam-9032_china_of-the-things-i-had-not-known-when-i-sta_840225.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/598/david-halberstam-9032_china_of-the-things-i-had-not-known-when-i-sta_840225.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Of the things I had not known when I started out, I think the most important was the degree to which the…” — David Halberstam",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 39,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Martin Luther King Jr. was the greatest movement leader in American history. But, as Hillary Clinton once correctly pointed out, his efforts would have been futile without those of the machine politician Lyndon Johnson, a seasoned congressional deal maker willing to sign any pact with the devil to get the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act passed. And the work doesn’t stop once legislation is passed. One must keep winning elections to defend the gains that social movements have contributed to. If the steady advance of a radicalized Republican Party, over many years and in every branch and at every level of government, should teach liberals anything, it is the absolute priority of winning elections today. Given the Republicans’ rage for destruction, it is the only way to guarantee that newly won protections for African-Americans, other minorities, women, and gay Americans remain in place. Workshops and university seminars will not do it. Online mobilizing and flash mobs will not do it. Protesting, acting up, and acting out will not do it. The age of movement politics is over, at least for now. We need no more marchers. We need more mayors. And governors, and state legislators, and members of Congress . .”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Mark Lilla"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-lilla/martin-luther-king-jr-was-the-greatest-movement-leader-in-american/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e43/mark-lilla-13300_american-history_martin-luther-king-jr-was-the-greatest-m_896417.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e43/mark-lilla-13300_american-history_martin-luther-king-jr-was-the-greatest-m_896417.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e43/mark-lilla-13300_american-history_martin-luther-king-jr-was-the-greatest-m_896417.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Martin Luther King Jr. was the greatest movement leader in American history. But, as Hillary Clinton once…” — Mark Lilla",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 40,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Bill Moyers"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-moyers/lyndon-johnson-believed-the-poor-deserved-a-better-life-than-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a36/bill-moyers-2625_better-life_lyndon-johnson-believed-the-poor-deserve_1935346.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a36/bill-moyers-2625_better-life_lyndon-johnson-believed-the-poor-deserve_1935346.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a36/bill-moyers-2625_better-life_lyndon-johnson-believed-the-poor-deserve_1935346.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought…” — Bill Moyers",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lyndon-johnson/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lyndon-johnson/",
            "name": "Lyndon johnson Quotes",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lyndon-johnson/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d47/neil-young-969_lyndon-johnson_lyndon-johnson-bared-his-scars-american_1206031.jpg"
            },
            "description": "Browse 144 Lyndon johnson quotes by 100 authors. Discover the best Lyndon johnson sayings and thoughts.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lyndon-johnson/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lyndon-johnson/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Lyndon Johnson Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lyndon-johnson/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```