Lyndon Baines Johnson

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    We have not been fair with the Negro and his education. He has not had adequate or ample education to permit him to qualify for many jobs that are open to him.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    Why not draft executive and management brains to prepare and produce the equipment the $21-a-month draftee must use and forget this dollar-a-year tommyrot? Would we send an army into the field under a dollar-a-year General who had to be home Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays?
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    A big family must be fun. I imagine it makes you feel you belong to something.
    —BarrĂ© Lyndon (1896–1972)

    Every President wants to do right.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)