Contingency Quote by McGeorge Bundy

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

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 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

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their…

— David Kay

Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.

— P. J. O'Rourke

How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.

— Robert Dallek

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.

— Frank Beddor

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

Presidents don't have the benefit of hindsight. You have to make difficult decisions based on the information that's before you at that moment.

— Marco Rubio

For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He…

— Robert Scheer

Eisenhower advocated a variety of strong actions which he had never taken when he was president. Maybe this was just the pattern of former…

— Anonymous