Tag: Lyndon B. Johnson
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I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Lyndon B. Johnson