America Quote by Tom Wicker

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

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 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

[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

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

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 was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do…

— Bill Ayers

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 faced some clear moral issues.

— P. J. O'Rourke

It's not Lyndon Johnson who makes the black freedom movement; it's the black freedom movement who makes Lyndon Johnson.

— Bill Ayers

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

“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