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If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.
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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle.
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Of all the problems of conservation, none is more urgent that the polluted air which endangers the American people. We have been fortunate so far. But we have seen that when winds fail to blow, the concentrations of poisonous clouds over our cities can become perilous.
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I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
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I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
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