Lyndon Johnson Quotes

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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
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
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
Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work — Robert Caro
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
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
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
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
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
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
I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. — Jack Valenti
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
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
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
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
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
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
Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did with Lyndon Johnson,… — George Friedman
Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons. — Calvin Jillson
You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy. — Lyndon B. Johnson

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