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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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" 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. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Congress

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" The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America. "

" I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it. "

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

" 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. "

" Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there. "

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

" You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy. "

" 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. "

" You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered. "

" Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store. "

" If the American people don't love me, their descendants will. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

Love

Love Me

" Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

Time

Dumb

" I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's. "

" While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass. "

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

" This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you. "

" 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. "

" When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name. "

" You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote. "

" The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. "

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

" 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. "

" It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought. "

" 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. "

" Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation. "

" I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

Right

Feel

" The noblest search is the search for excellence. "

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lunch

Boy

" Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. "