Tag: 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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t fart and chew gum at the same time.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Every President wants to do right.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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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!
Lyndon B. Johnson