Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
Give me the best ideas. Forget about the politics. I’ll worry about that after we know what the best program is.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1908-1973, 36th President of the United States (Democrat, TX), Quoted in Califano, Inside a Public and Private Life, 2004
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Referring to President Lyndon B. Johnson
The President was asked at a press conference to give an example of a Richard M. Nixon idea that Eisenhower had adopted in their first administration.
Emanuel argued that when the nation faced a crisis of one kind or another, and the administration had to take steps to cope with the crisis or ameliorate it, the time is often opportune to get some of their legislative program passed or reform areas that have been resistant.
He and his Prime Minister, John Majors, had become so unpopular, that they were forced to resign by their own Conservative Party and never had to be voted out of office.
The Central Intelligence Agency had a hand in the assassination having smuggled in the weapons. However, the government takeover plan did not go as expected and there was no clear alternative plan to go to.
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.
