Lyndon Baines Johnson

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    A President must call on many persons—some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I’m going to Viet Nam’s aid!
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.... It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.... It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.
    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)

    The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)