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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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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.


— 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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In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.


— 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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