#lyndon johnson

My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

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Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency. ↗

— Robert Caro

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It may not be too late, whatever happens, if our President, Lyndon Johnson, knew the truth from me. But if I am eliminated, there won't be any way of knowing. ↗

— Jack Ruby

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I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world. ↗

— Robert Caro

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Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work. ↗

— Robert Caro

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I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice. ↗

— Phil Hartman

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Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party. ↗

— Robert Caro

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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life. ↗

— Bill Moyers

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I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. ↗

— Jack Valenti

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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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