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
The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the Straits of Tiran would be closed. The right of innocent, maritime passage must be preserved for all nations
Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.
We still seek no wider war.
Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved.
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.
The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.
All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.