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 two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.
This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.
I taught school in the early days of my manhood and I think I know something about mothers. There is a thread of aspiration that runs strong in them. It is the fiber that has formed the most unselfish creatures who inhabit this earth. They want three things only; for their children to be fed, to be healthy, and to make the most of themselves.
If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her in the living room.
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.
Jerry Ford is so dumb that he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
I wrote once every two or three weeks for about a year, ... and then about a year ago, I got an e-mail.