#johnson

When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet. ↗

— Erich Leinsdorf

#come #could #director #find #first

But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state. ↗

— George Smathers

#decided #dividing #favorite #florida #going

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

— Wilbur Mills

#dollars #habit #had #johnson #president

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk. ↗

— Ben Harper

#folk #grew #i #johnson #listening

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

#career #career choice #choice #considered #could

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#dr #however #johnson #lazy #learned

They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game. ↗

— Keith Hernandez

#johnson #lose #randy

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#broken #had #his #johnson #man

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#country #generally #his #johnson #men

Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#government #his #job #johnson #manpower