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Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be…

— Bill Moyers

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

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

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 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

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 wanted to emancipate the whites as much as people of color, because he knew how, particularly in the South, but not only…

— Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

[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

Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

— Lord Byron

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

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

— Lyndon B. Johnson