Lyndon Baines Johnson

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    No slogan of democracy; no battle cry of freedom is more striving then the American parent’s simple statement which all of you have heard many times: ‘I want my child to go to college.’
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    Every President wants to do right.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    A big family must be fun. I imagine it makes you feel you belong to something.
    —BarrĂ© Lyndon (1896–1972)

    I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television—with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)