Johnson Quote by Lew Wasserman Download Open image “President Johnson offered the middle of the road.” — Lew Wasserman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Johnson Middle Middle of the road Offered President President johnson Road
“Johnson devoted an entire section to racial etiquette on the highway. “When driving their own cars,” he wrote, “they were expected to maintain their… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Mr Johnson should remember that I am not just anyone and that he is only president of the United States by the grace of… — Marguerite Oswald Copy Share Image
“People no longer wanted right or left—they wanted middle-of-the-road.” — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“To one degree or another every president is haunted by those who went before, but few so literally as Johnson. No president had ever… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
“Lydon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“RESISTANCE TO CHANGE? “The canal system of this country is being threatened by the spread of a new form of transportation known as ’railroads’ and the federal government must preserve the canals. . . . If canal boats are supplanted by ’railroads,’ serious unemployment will result. Captains, cooks, drivers, hostlers, repairmen, and lock tenders will be left without means of… — Leslie W. Rue Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
Presidents have to decide what their popularity is for. Lyndon Johnson probably understood best that political popularity is a wasting asset. You had to… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists… — Lew Wasserman Copy Share Image
We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we… — Lew Wasserman Copy Share Image
I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm… — Lew Wasserman Copy Share Image
You tend to meet on a more regular basis with people in your industry, and reality being what it is, you tend to meet… — Lew Wasserman Copy Share Image
I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a… — Lew Wasserman Copy Share Image
That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told… — Lew Wasserman Copy Share Image
Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing. — Lew Wasserman Copy Share Image
I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the… — Lew Wasserman Copy Share Image
Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever… — Lew Wasserman Copy Share Image
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share
Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Neil Young and Bob Dylan are my main influences. — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Look at what I am proposing, and we [wih Bernie Sanders] have a vigorous agreement here. We both want to reign in the excesses… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery. — Alvin Lee Copy Share
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image
Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
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