Lyndon Baines Johnson

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    We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    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)

    That’s just the trouble, Sam Houston—it’s always my move. And damnit, I sometimes can’t tell whether I’m making the right move or not. Now take this Vietnam mess. How in the hell can anyone know for sure what’s right and what’s wrong, Sam?
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    After all that men could do had failed, the Martians were destroyed and humanity was saved by the littlest things which God in his wisdom had put upon this Earth.
    —BarrĂ© Lyndon (1896–1972)

    The last thing I wanted to do was to be a ‘wartime’ President.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    The true art of memory is the art of attention.
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)