There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost inces…
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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About Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Johnson was vice president under John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's assassination in 1963, when he assumed the presidency. Before becoming vice president, he served in both houses of the U.S. Congress, representing Texas as a member of the Democratic Party.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Lyndon B. JohnsonI want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
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.
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, …
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Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful co…
The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reass…
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.
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society an…
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industria…
I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost inces…
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for…
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.