Kennedy Quote by Robert A. Caro Download Open image ““Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.”” — Robert A. Caro ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Kennedy Lbj Lyndon b johnson Lyndon johnson Political correctness Politics
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Many men have a passion for food or drink or sex or making money. For Lyndon [Johnson] it was politics. It was his natural… — Herman E. Talmadge Copy Share Image
“As several historians have pointed out, it would have made little sense for Fidel to do something that would risk having his country invaded… — Lamar Waldron Copy Share Image
“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 in pointing to the role of these traits and in arguing that Johnson, commander-in-chief until 1969, possessed the ultimate power to stem the tide of escalation. He was the last, best, and only chance for the… — James T. Patterson Copy Share
How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“I give my vote for Mr. Johnson to fill that great and arduous post. And I hereby declare that I make a total surrender… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Hard, brown, ancient, he possessed a prehistoric strain of maleness, a blend of grit and integrity and calcified stubbornness that was rare in Lyndon… — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
“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
The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country” that they summoned… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“And, in fact, had Johnson’s plan succeeded, in many ways it would indeed have been “just the way it was.” — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“As one 1935 study put it, boys and girls who were 15 or 16 in 1929 when the Depression began are no longer children;… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“On the rare occasions on which a movie was shown, there was as much suspense in the audience over whether the electricity would hold… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“Abraham Lincoln struck off the chains of black Americans, but it was Lyndon Johnson who led them into voting booths, closed democracy’s sacred curtain… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“I, sir, take a different view of the whole matter. I look upon Ohio and South Carolina to be parts of one whole—parts of… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“A newcomer could ascertain the identity of a town's true leaders – which storekeeper was respected, which farmer was listened to other farmers –… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“MR. CALHOUN. Never, never. MR. WEBSTER. What he means he is very apt to say. MR. CALHOUN. Always, always. MR. WEBSTER. And I honor him for it.” — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“When Silent Cal Coolidge noted that “You don’t have to explain something you haven’t said,” — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“...his success in public relations had been due primarily to his masterful utilization of a single public relations technique: identifying himself with a popular… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“With a note of sadness, Wicker wrote in 1983 that “the reverence, the childlike dependence, the willingness to follow where the President leads, the… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“He won that election in the byways,” Bill Deason says. Ava Cox says: “That’s what made Lyndon Johnson be elected the first time.… He… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
The Kennedys have always represented a certain royal quality, Camelot, and they represent a great deal of integrity and strength and perseverance; faith in… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of… — Wally Schirra Copy Share Image
“In subject files labeled as correspondence related to Rosemary Kennedy, withdrawal sheets indicate the removal of hundreds of documents dating between 1923 and the… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
I would've loved Jack Kennedy. I would've loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
“Although she’s miles away, still I remember spending that December, staring at the sounds she made with her breath. And when I asked what it… — Valentine Xavier Copy Share Image
It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer… — Mike Honda Copy Share Image
“Kennedy, who had campaigned strongly on the “Missile Gap” issue, soon discovered as president that the Soviet Union didn’t have the 500 missiles feared—it… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
The John F. Kennedy presidency, with its glittering court of Camelot, cemented the impression that it was the Democrats who represented the thinking men… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
Most people give Kennedy a passing grade, a good grade on the Cuban Missile Crisis handling, but what they don't realize, if he had… — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
Rock stars generally don't last in the Senate, starting with John Kennedy. Too much work, too slow, too little juice. Getting something accomplished takes… — Susan Estrich Copy Share Image
When Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 as her father's rightful heir, she laid upon him the mantle of Camelot and the enduring… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image