Inaugural address Quote by Robert A. Caro

“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

“And, in fact, had Johnson’s plan succeeded, in many ways it would indeed have been “just the way it was.”

— Robert A. Caro

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“When Silent Cal Coolidge noted that “You don’t have to explain something you haven’t said,”

— Robert A. Caro

“...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

“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

“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