Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F. Kennedy, from 1961 to 1963. Johnson was a Democrat from Texas, who served as a United States Representative from 1937 to 1949 and as a United States Senator from 1949 to 1961. He spent six years as Senate Majority Leader, two as...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth27 August 1908
CountryUnited States of America
What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.
I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.
If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.
Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship.