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" No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

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" A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. "

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" There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous. "

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" The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being. "

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