Lyndon Quotes
40 quotes by 34 authors
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Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson…
— Robert Caro
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Tell the Truth, and speak from your pay-grade. Don't try to answer questions that would better be directed to the battalion commander or Gen. William…
— Hal Moore
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That field goal attempt was so far to the left it nearly decapitated Lyndon LaRouche.
— Dennis Miller
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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…
— Robert Caro
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Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work
— Robert Caro
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I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved…
— Robert Caro
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It may not be too late, whatever happens, if our President, Lyndon Johnson, knew the truth from me. But if I am eliminated, there won't…
— Jack Ruby
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Lyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family to…
— Nancy Gibbs
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I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on…
— Richard Holbrooke
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Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.
— Phil Hartman
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I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.
— Jack Valenti
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I call upon both Republicans and Democrats to work with us to have a national ID card that is free and accessible. President Lyndon Johnson…
— Andrew Young
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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…
— Joe Lhota
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President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as…
— Tom Wicker
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If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John…
— Jeff Greenfield
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My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white…
— Emilio Estevez
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I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.
— Erich Leinsdorf
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