#lyndon

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. Obama has that voice. It has to be used. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#american people #clearer #ground #lyndon #need

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#between #cowboy #cross #johnson #lyndon

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#american people #clearer #ground #lyndon #need

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

#bread #break #different #dinner #father

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

#american people #did #every #johnson #live

I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly. ↗

— Erich Leinsdorf

#friendly #i #introduced #johnson #lyndon

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

#any #eliminated #happens #i #i am

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#also #brainy #brilliant #defense #disastrous

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war. ↗

— Glenn Greenwald

#governance #iraq-war #lyndon-b-johnson #politics #united-states

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

#country #creating #first #had #hill