Character Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as…

— Bill Moyers

One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I…

— Robert Dallek

I think with Lyndon Johnson, the most important thing I learned was that he never had the sense of security that comes from inside.…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

[Lyndon Baines ] Johnson is a big and larger-than-life guy, we just tried to give him the dynamic range that he actually had.

— Jay Roach

Even though Lyndon Johnson's presidency was in many ways scarred forever by the war in Vietnam, and destroyed in a lot of ways, he…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Lyndon Johnson (with Abraham Lincoln close behind). Johnson was able to get things done, to read other people, and to adjust his own approach…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

“The second most powerful man in the country.” All his life Lyndon Johnson had been taking “nothing jobs” and making them into something—something big.…

— Robert A. Caro

I had a lot of fun bantering back and forth with Kennedy. But for ease and comfort, it would be Gerald Ford. He was…

— Helen Thomas

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

— Edward Dahlberg

The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.

— Alan Greenspan

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and…

— William Hazlitt

Bobby Kennedy's conduct toward Lyndon Johnson was childish and despicable. As the years went on, he displayed nasty, self-pitying, and messianic qualities that would…

— Thomas Mallon