Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
… a whippersnapper …. He never said a word of importance in the Senate and he never did a thing.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1908-1973, 36th President of the United States (Democrat, TX), Description of John F. Kennedy to Doris Kearns Goodwin
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It it alleged that in the original quotation "warm piss" was the phrase used, but the delicacies of the times caused the biographer to clean it up.
As a young Senator JFK had called for Algerian freedom from French rule. The French ambassador was not even upset.
Referring to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, 1867-1947: 1st Baron & 1st Marquis Curzon of Kedleston
When the delegate of Bulgaria to the U.N. Security Council accused Israel of firing the first shot in the Six-Day War, the Israeli delegate called the charge:
Madison did not fire Armstrong despite Monroe’s complaints.
Lin Zexu was actually trying to do something to stop the opium trade. See {621321} . But the English merchants did not want to cease their lucrative trade and used the Navy to humiliate the Chinese.
Interestingly, when Picasso was alive, this was a legitimate criticism. However since then, there have been several generations of development of hardware and software, and where the criticism is valid going into the 21st century, computers—with the right software—are beginning to ask questions, create hypotheses, suggest directions if inquiry, and organize concepts. There are even some which purport to function creatively.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, in office from 1963 to 1969. He served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963 and assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson was also a United States representative and later majority leader in the United States Senate. Johnson is one of only four people to have served, at various times, in all four federal elected positions.
