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Once we considered education a public expense we know now that it is a public investment.
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 Johnson
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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We must open the doors of opportunity.
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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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