Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
He's a caveman ... Mr. Eisenhower told me he wasn't a dependable man. Mr. Kennedy told me he was not a dependable man … He's got a serious mental problem. I just don't trust him on anything.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1908-1973, 36th President of the United States (Democrat, TX), Telephone conversation complaining about Congressman Otto Passman (Democrat, LA) with House Speaker John McCormick, December 20, 1963
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Speaker of the House Jim Wright
Characterizing President Ronald Reagan in the midst of the Iran-Contra scandal:
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1st Marquis of Peña Plata
This and other quotations like {640617} and {640615} show that the State Department knew that Mobutu Sese Seko, the man we were backing in the Congo had many very undesirable characteristics for a dependable foreign ally and one who should be given control of billions of American money. Yet nothing was done and we continued to support him despite the kleptocracy and the instability that undermined his regime and the United States along with it.
The textbooks in the Egyptian schools and universities would change frequently as the politics of the nation and the world changed. This is typical in nations where ideology changes frequently. There is pressure for textbook change even in America, even over such basic science as evolution or interpretations of history and politics. In Egypt and most other nations even facts change from year to year.
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.
