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Lyndon B. Johnson

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When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.


— 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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We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.


— 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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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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