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Lyndon B. Johnson

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We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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Freedom is not enough.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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A man without a vote is man without protection.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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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.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.


— Lyndon B. Johnson


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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.


— 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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