Lyndon johnson Quote by Robert A. Caro

“Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.”

— Robert A. Caro

“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

[Lyndon Baines ] Johnson is a big and larger-than-life guy, we just tried to give him the dynamic range that he actually had.

— Jay Roach

“He [Lyndon Baines Johnson]turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a…

— Herbert Mitgang

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

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

“In truth, there will never be enough power in the presidency for an incumbent to make good on a purely constructive leadership project, and…

— Stephen Skowronek

“To one degree or another every president is haunted by those who went before, but few so literally as Johnson. No president had ever…

— Nancy Gibbs

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

“This man who in the pursuit of his aims could be so utterly ruthless—who would let nothing stand in his way; who, in the…

— Robert A. Caro

After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson,…

— Nancy Gibbs

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