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The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.
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While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
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No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!
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Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.
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The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.
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Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.
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