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It is profoundly important to honor President Johnson's historic contributions to justice and democracy - and to appreciate how hard he fought for the…

— Marc Veasey

“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

“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

“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 am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect,…

— John Sherman Cooper

But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run…

— George Smathers

“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

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

“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

[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

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people…

— Robert 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