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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.
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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'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be indifferent to the outcome of that race. We care deeply about the winner. Because we do care so deeply about the winner, that is why we are all in the East Room of the White House today.
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. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.
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He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction.
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I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.
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In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
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'If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he'll be on your porch and the next day he'll rape your wife in your own bed.
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We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.
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I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle.
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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.
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We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
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