Able Quote by Jeffrey Pfeffer

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 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

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

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

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

[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

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

Now in my view, if you were to line up the Presidents in the order of who made the greatest accomplishments, you'd put Lyndon…

— Bill Ayers

I do not think anyone who ever saw Lyndon Johnson give a speech would call him charismatic, even though he was one of the…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the…

— H. R. McMaster

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

— Dennis Ritchie