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It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

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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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.
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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel we don't even know where the tunnel is.
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True poverty does not come from God.
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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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.
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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy's window, and say it smells like roses.
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Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship.
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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.
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If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.
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In addition to our existing programs, I will recommend a new program for schools and students with a first-year authorization of $1,500 million.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.
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Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is respect. The fourth pillar is cooperation.
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It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon the light, points of time where one course of action ends and another begins.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
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For it was only after I could become President of this country that I could really see in all its hopeful and troubling implications just how much the hopes of our citizens and the security of our Nation and the real strength of our democracy depended upon the learning and the understanding of our people.
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