Air Quote by Nancy Gibbs

“Three days after that, the funeral was held, and while riding from the church to the cemetery Ava looked out the widow and noticed…

— David Sedaris

President Kennedy knew every agent by name. President Johnson knew many of us, but not as many as President Kennedy, probably.

— Clint Hill

“Lyndon Johnson bared his scars, American. . . stars 'n bars.”

— Neil Young

“Kennedy entered, waving to the standing audience, an elderly gentleman in an Alpine hat and lederhosen struck up “Hail to the Chief ” on…

— Stephen King

Some Kennedy aides have always insisted that Johnson misread J.F.K.'s plans for Vietnam. They say that Kennedy had begun to rethink the U.S. presence…

— Robert Dallek

“strength with which President Kennedy dispatched his enemies”—a tribute couched in rather remarkable words: Johnson described Kennedy “when he looks you straight in the…

— Robert A. Caro

“Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, "It was involuntary. They think my boat.”

— Sally Bedell Smith

“The good reporters of that era, those who were well educated and who were enlightened themselves and worked for enlightened organizations, liked the Kennedys…

— David Halberstam

“He (LBJ) was smiling and deferential, but lots of guys can be smiling and deferential. He had something else. No matter what someone thought,…

— Tommy Corcoran

“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

“Lyndon Baines Johnson, who had dreamed of the presidency since the earliest days of his career, who had toiled in that same Texas soil…

— Garrett M. Graff

“in the same way that Lee Harvey Oswald couldn’t really claim that shooting presidents wasn’t like him at all. Sometimes we have to be…

— Nick Hornby