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He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.
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
Politician
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Stonewall
Texas
Lyndon Johnson
LBJ
Lyndon Baines Johnson
President Johnson
L. B. Johnson
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And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a reality.
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I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.
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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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