Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
I’d rather you have my pecker cut off.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1908-1973, 36th President of the United States (Democrat, TX), Statement after his physician told him he had to quit smoking after his heart attack
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Califano had just reported to the President that he had successfully negotiated a deal with a key senator.
He was answering protesters and critics of his economic policies which led to dramatic price increases.
In the wake of the Tonkin Gulf incident, the United States bombed and destroyed North Vietnam naval installations:
The Scimitar editors assumed that the author was a man. It was Ida B. Wells. The lynch mob found no one and only ransacked the Free Speech offices, threatening to lynch the editors if they ever returned.
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.
