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No matter what office LBJ assumed he lifted greater than when he found it. ~ David Pietrusza
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For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population. ~ Mark Steyn
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FDR, JFK, LBJ [all Democratic presidents ] we have a pretty long list of presidents who maybe were not entirely forthcoming with intelligence information before they went to war, so I'd be cautious against making legal cases against the administration. ~ Barack Obama
Lbj quotes by Barack Obama
[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Lbj quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
President Kennedy's eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson's hammer blows are designed to make men act. ~ Robert A. Caro
Lbj quotes by Robert A. Caro
I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate. ~ Helen Thomas
Lbj quotes by Helen Thomas
He was to become the lawmaker for the poor and the downtrodden and the oppressed. He was to be the bearer of at least a measure of social justice to those whom social justice had so long been denied. The restorer of at least a measure of dignity to those who so desperately needed to be given some dignity. The redeemer of the promises made by them to America. "It is time to write it in the books of law." By the time Lyndon Johnson left office he had done a lot of writing in those books, had become, above all presidents save Lincoln, the codifier of compassion, the president who wrote mercy and justice in the statute books by which America was governed. ~ Robert A. Caro
Lbj quotes by Robert A. Caro
In truth, there will never be enough power in the presidency for an incumbent to make good on a purely constructive leadership project, and it is unlikely that there will ever be another president stretched so thinly by a determination to use great power to do just that. Lyndon Johnson was a full-service president who had at his disposal an alignment of political resources, economic resources, international resources, and military resources unmatched in the annals of presidential history. The problem is that in a full-service presidency, where no interest of political significance is denied a modicum of legitimacy, resources turn fickle; the exercise of power consumes authority. Committed to a wholly affirmative result, Johnson could not rest content to let anyone carry the brunt of change. ~ Stephen Skowronek
Lbj quotes by Stephen Skowronek
Eisenhower on LBJ: He hadn't got the depth of mind nor the breath vision to carry great responsibility. ~ David Pietrusza
Lbj quotes by David Pietrusza
It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic (April 28, 1965). (Santo Domingo was Iraq before Iraq was Iraq.) ~ Junot Diaz
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The shittrain began on November 22nd, 1963, in Dallas - when some twisted little geek blew the President's off... and then a year later, LBJ was re-elected as the "Peace Candidate."

Johnson did a lot of rotten things in those five bloody years, but when the history books are written he will emerge in his proper role as the man who caused an entire generation of Americans to lose all respect for the Presidency, the White House, the Army, and in fact the who structure of "government. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
Lbj quotes by Hunter S. Thompson
The great sadness," Helms said in an oral history recorded for the LBJ Library, "was our ignorance - or innocence, if you like - which led us to mis-assess, not comprehend, and make a lot of wrong decisions. ~ Tim Weiner
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During his tenure as solicitor general Marshall solidified his relationship with LBJ over bourbon and Dr Pepper. ~ Evan Mandery
Lbj quotes by Evan Mandery
Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately. ~ Robert A. Caro
Lbj quotes by Robert A. Caro
LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right. ~ Mark Steyn
Lbj quotes by Mark Steyn
It is not clear who will bring to the Whitehouse those useful commodities of vivid language, a sense of history and most important - a sense of humour, but Johnson himself will provide many other attributes. He is effective precisely because he is so determined, industrious, personal and even humourless, particularly in dealing with Congress. ( ... ) Kennedy had a detached and even donnish willingness to grant a merit in the other fellow's argument. Johnson is not so inclined to retreat and grants nothing in an argument, not even equal time. Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately. This may not be the most attractive quality of the new administration but it works. The lovers of style are not too happy with the new administration, but the lovers of substance are not complaining. ~ Robert A. Caro
Lbj quotes by Robert A. Caro
A man without a vote is a man without protection. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Lbj quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great Society. Liberalism does not discredit itself. It has to be explained and beaten back. ~ Rush Limbaugh
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