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" There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

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" It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed. "

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" When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner. "

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" Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel. "

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" The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President. "

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" I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it. "

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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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" Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. "

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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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" 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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" When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention. "

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

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" Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid! "

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" I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam. "

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" We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors. "

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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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" We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. "

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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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" Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife. "

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" Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam. "

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" There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves. "

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