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
There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they make me impatient because I am convinced that beauty and order in our environment are not frills. I am convinced that they are urgent necessities because they will determine whether our grandchildren can live in a decent land or whether they will be surrounded by glittering junkheaps.
We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow.
Control of space means control of the world.
The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the air age we were powerful because we had airplaines. Now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space.
Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.
The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.
The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.
There's so much that we have yet to do -- the hunger in the world, the sickness in the world, the poverty in the world. We must apply some of the great talents that we've applied to space to all these problems, and get them done, and get them done in the spirit of what's the greatest good for the greatest number.
Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.
Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.
For Bird, still a girl of principles, ideals and refinement - from her admirer, Lyndon.
It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.