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“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)
“The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.... It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.... It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“Every President wants to do right.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)