About Quote by Robert Dallek

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

Even though Lyndon Johnson's presidency was in many ways scarred forever by the war in Vietnam, and destroyed in a lot of ways, he…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

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 became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed…

— Jonathan Coe

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and…

— William Hazlitt

[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

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

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

— Jonathan Coe

“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

Lyndon Johnson (with Abraham Lincoln close behind). Johnson was able to get things done, to read other people, and to adjust his own approach…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“Johnson argued that the most truthful life-writing is when ‘the writer tells his own story’, since only he knows the whole truth about himself.…

— Hermione Lee