American - President | August 27, 1908 - January 22, 1973
Freedom is not enough.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.
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You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
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Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!
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There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.
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A man without a vote is man without protection.
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Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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