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![Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/780/779299/779299.webp "Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it Picture Quote #1")
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Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as on the question of civil rights-he functioned like most men, as a product of his background (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him. (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
It’s not doing what is right that’s hard for a President. It’s knowing what is right. (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act. (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets) (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
You know when I first thought I might have a chance? When I realized that you could go into any bar in the country and insult Lyndon Johnson and nobody would punch you in the nose (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
I think I governed effectively. I don’t have any doubts about that. I had the benefit, when I was in office, of having an excellent relationship with the Republican Party. We had superb bipartisan support and we had the highest batting average of any president since the Second World War, except Lyndon Johnson. He had a little better average than I did (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child’s life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you’ll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson’s out there saying, ‘Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me? (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
I think history is continuous. It doesn’t begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
Tell the Truth, and speak from your pay-grade. Don’t try to answer questions that would better be directed to the battalion commander or Gen. William Westmoreland or President Lyndon Johnson. If you are a squad leader, answer questions about what you know and do (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
It’s Kennedy’s war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it’s Kennedy’s war (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They balance their tickets with senior statesmen - Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale. (Al Gore was young but played ancient) (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. For I know he lives and thinks and works to make sure that for all America and indeed, the growing body of the free world, the morning shall always come (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn’t find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who’s not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
It may not be too late, whatever happens, if our President, Lyndon Johnson, knew the truth from me. But if I am eliminated, there won’t be any way of knowing (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson’s administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s brilliant ‘whiz kids’ tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
Throughout American history, we have elected presidents who had not been honest man. Warren Harding, Richard Nixon, to some extent, Lyndon Johnson just to name a few (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of 62, neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)
Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency (Lyndon Johnson Quotes)