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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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Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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Every President wants to do right.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.


— 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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I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.


— 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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