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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle.
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
Rancher
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Stonewall
Texas
Lyndon Johnson
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
President Johnson
L. B. Johnson
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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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To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
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