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I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 27
Died: 1973
Died: January 22
36Th U.S. President
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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.
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Come now. let us reason together.
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I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.
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Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.
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Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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.
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