Lyndon Baines Johnson

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    Because of these convictions, I made a personal decision in the 1964 Presidential campaign to make education a fundamental issue and to put it high on the nation’s agenda. I proposed to act on my belief that regardless of a family’s financial condition, education should be available to every child in the United States—as much education as he could absorb.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    A President Roosevelt comes only once in a century. I believe God knew and does know of the need of the world at this moment. I don’t believe President Roosevelt is an accident in time, or that it is an accident that he is President for a third time. I believe that Franklin D. Roosevelt truly is the voice of liberty in the world.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    All radio is dead. Which means that these tape recordings I’m making are for the sake of future history. If any.
    —BarrĂ© Lyndon (1896–1972)

    I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)