“We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer can bar the way to the White House. Some of you may live to see the day when the prejudice of sex no longer places the Presidency beyond the reach of a greatly gifted American lady. Long before them, I hope you will see a woman member of the Supreme Court of the United States. In Congress and in our State Legislatures we need more women to bring their sensitive experience to the shaping of our decisions.”
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
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“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
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“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
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“I knew from the start that I was bound to be crucified either way I moved. If I left the woman I really loved–the Great Society–in order to get involved with that bitch of a war on the other side of the world, then I would lose everything at home. All my programs. All my hopes to feed the hungry and shelter the homeless. All my dreams to provide education and medical care to the browns and the blacks and the lame and the poor. But if I left that war and let the Communists take over South Vietnam, then I would be seen as a coward and my nation would be seen as an appeaser and we would find it impossible to accomplish anything for anybody anywhere on the entire globe.”
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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“This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.”
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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“That’s just the trouble, Sam Houston–it’s always my move. And damnit, I sometimes can’t tell whether I’m making the right move or not. Now take this Vietnam mess. How in the hell can anyone know for sure what’s right and what’s wrong, Sam?”
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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“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
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“The last thing I wanted to do was to be a ‘wartime’ President.”
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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“Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.”
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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“Our job is now clear. All Americans must be prepared to make, on a 24 hour schedule, every war weapon possible and the war factory line will use men and materials which will bring, the war effort to every man, woman, and child in America. All one hundred thirty million of us will be needed to answer the sunrise stealth of the Sabbath Day Assassins.”
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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“I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.”
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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“Britain is mighty wobbly. It started late, because it dawdled, appeased, waited for something to turn up.”
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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“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
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“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
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“All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.”
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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“I pray that when historians write the story of this time, of our lives, that it may be recorded that this president tried–tried to lead his nation with justice and with compassion, and with courage; and there was faith, and there was firmness in his heart. May it further be written that the people of the United States cast out their doubts, looked with great pride on their achievements, and bravely made of this land and this world a brighter, happier place for all mankind. This is our choice. This is our decision. Let us all be greatly determined that this society shall survive and this society shall succeed. And what it should be will be for all time to come.”
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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“As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant to reflect the continuity of the past–to preserve the delicate balance of justice between the majority’s whims and the minority’s rights.”
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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“I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.”
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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“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
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