#president johnson

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#born #both #common #fact #fortunate

I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#back #believe #come #decisions #disinterested

President Johnson offered the middle of the road. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

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President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. ↗

— William Westmoreland

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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#any #bangkok #completely #did #ever

President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear. ↗

— Wilbur Mills

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Well, Hale was one of the first people who suggested to President Johnson that there should be a commission. ↗

— Lindy Boggs

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President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#confrontation #could #course #destroyers #gulf