Lyndon b johnson Quote by Herbert Mitgang

[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

“There was something about Miss Lyndon that made him glad she was on his side. Not that he thought she would make a vicious…

— Julia Quinn

“He (LBJ) was smiling and deferential, but lots of guys can be smiling and deferential. He had something else. No matter what someone thought,…

— Tommy Corcoran

“Many men have a passion for food or drink or sex or making money. For Lyndon [Johnson] it was politics. It was his natural…

— Herman E. Talmadge

“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

“Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.”

— Robert A. Caro

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 significance of LBJ's personal traits accounted for the growing belief, especially by anti-war activists, that Vietnam was "Johnson's War." His critics are correct…

— James T. Patterson

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

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

“Hard, brown, ancient, he possessed a prehistoric strain of maleness, a blend of grit and integrity and calcified stubbornness that was rare in Lyndon…

— Phil Knight

He [Lyndon Johnson] hated the war. He hated having anybody put in harm away. But he believed that what we were doing is what…

— Lynda Bird Johnson Robb