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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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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.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.


— 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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I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.


— 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


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W. One of his first actions was to eliminate the seniority system in appointment to a committee while retaining it in terms of chairmanships. Though Kennedy may have intended this to remain a more nominal position Taylor Branch in Pillar of Fire contends that Johnson served to push the Kennedy administration's actions for civil rights further and faster than Kennedy originally intended to go.

Johnson a Democrat from Texas served as a United States Representative from 1937–1949 and as a Senator from 1949–1961 including six years as United States Senate Majority Leader two as Senate Minority Leader and two as Senate Majority Whip. The involvement stimulated a large angry antiwar movement based especially on university campuses in the U. Republican Richard Nixon was elected to succeed him.

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