Lyndon Baines Johnson

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    “You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “Britain is mighty wobbly. It started late, because it dawdled, appeased, waited for something to turn up.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “I told them I’m not going to let Vietnam go the way of China. I told them to go back and tell those generals in Saigon that Lyndon Johnson intends to stand by our word, but by God, I want something for my money. I want ‘em to get off their butts and get out in those jungles and whip hell out of some Communists. And then I want ‘em to leave me alone, because I’ve got some bigger things to do right here at home.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “God damnit, why must all those journalists be such sticklers for detail? Why, they’d hold you to an accurate description of the first time you ever made love, expecting you to remember the color of the room and the shape of the windows.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)