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
Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
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.
Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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.
Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.
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.
He was the one person I ever knew, anywhere, who was never afraid.
We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.