Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (often referred to as LBJ), was the thirty-sixth President of the United States (1963–1969). Johnson served a long career in the U.S. Congress, and in 1960 was selected by then-Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to be his running-mate. Johnson became the thirty-seventh Vice President, and in 1963, he succeeded to the presidency following Kennedy's assassination. He was a major leader of the Democratic Party and as President was responsible for designing the Great Society, comprising liberal legislation including civil rights laws, Medicare (health care for the elderly), Medicaid (health care for the poor), aid to education, and a "War on Poverty." Simultaneously, he escalated the American involvement in the Vietnam War, from 16,000 American soldiers in 1963 to 550,000 in early 1968.
“Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize Oh man....I could be eating a slow learner.”
“We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.”
“[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.”
“A man without a vote is a man without protection.”
“Don't Spit in the Soup, We All Gotta Eat”
“Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.”
“If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.”
“Guns and bombs, rockets and warships, are all symbols of human failure.”
“We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.”
“The noblest search is the search for excellence”
“I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.”
“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim.”
“Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.”
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
“While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.”