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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

The foundational principles of modern liberalism - civil rights and greater economic equality - took further strides during Johnson's presidency than any since the…

— Neera Tanden

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…

— Tom Wicker

President Lyndon Johnson was very, very unpredictable. We never knew for sure what he is going to do next, and he preferred to have…

— Clint Hill

Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be…

— Bill Moyers

Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

How exactly was Johnson able to pass the Great Society legislation and the Voting Rights Act? Of course, he was a savvy deal-maker. But…

— Neera Tanden

Anyway, in 1966, Daddy had started to attack Lyndon Johnson on the war in Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson was a good man. Even though he…

— Martin Luther King III

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

Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.

— Pat Buchanan