Flattery Quote by Tommy Corcoran

“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

“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

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

— Robert A. Caro

“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

“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…

— James T. Patterson

“Lyndon Johnson knew this when he quipped, “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t…

— Nancy Isenberg

“Lyndon Johnson bared his scars, American. . . stars 'n bars.”

— Neil Young

“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

“President Kennedy’s eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson’s hammer blows are designed to make men act.”

— Robert A. Caro

“Johnson demanded not only loyalty but also subservience from people around him. To humiliate and even to frighten others was to heighten his own…

— James T. Patterson

Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation,…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“What he’d wanted before had crumbled away, leaving the truth of what Kennedy did to him. It was new, and there was a long…

— Natalie J. Damschroder