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" The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Character
Newspaper
Man
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" The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President. "
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" The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. "
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" While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass. "
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" No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn. "
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" The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty. "
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" Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store. "
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" There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration. "
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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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" If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' "
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" This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it. "
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Moment
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Parents
" If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. "
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Everything
You
Doing
" I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display. "
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Open
Museum
" What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you. "
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Argument
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" Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good. "
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Good
Decision
History
" I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America. "
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Home
Better
" You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy. "
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Might
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" One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. "
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Lesson
Go
Better
" Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. "
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Tomorrow
Win
Win Or Lose
" Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. "
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Miles
Step
Peace
" 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. "
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Media
Confidence
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" What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. "
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Accept
Party
Lost
" Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it. "
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Wife
" I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard. "
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Matter
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" The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business. "
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Family
" The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance. "
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Ignorance
Freedom From
" We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. "
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World
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" In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic. "
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Our
Home
" We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. "
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Home
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" When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor. "
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Worse