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
I may not worry as much as Prime Minister Eshkol does about Israel, but I worry as deeply.
[The United States and Israel] share many common objectives ... chief of which is the building of a better world in which every nation can develop its resources and develop them in freedom and peace.
You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.
I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.
Come now. let us reason together.
A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight.
You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.
Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is respect. The fourth pillar is cooperation.
No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
...International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration...The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.