Bigs Quote by Jay Roach

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

“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 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 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

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

— Edward Dahlberg

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

Boris Johnson is a man of great attributes and great qualities.

— Michael Gove

“In truth, there will never be enough power in the presidency for an incumbent to make good on a purely constructive leadership project, and…

— Stephen Skowronek

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

“It is not clear who will bring to the Whitehouse those useful commodities of vivid language, a sense of history and most important -…

— Robert A. Caro

“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