Lyndon Baines Johnson

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    I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men—and closes its hearts to none.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.
    Eugene J. McCarthy (b. 1916)

    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.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)