Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
If you ever keep [Vice President] Hubert [Humphrey] waiting again, I'll kick your ass down that hall.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1908-1973, 36th President of the United States (Democrat, TX), Quoted in Esquire, August 1967
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When Admiral Lewis Strauss, President Truman's special assistant on atomic energy, refused to go beyond vague generalities in an interview, Alsop remarked:
Holmes was a young soldier at the battle. This quote is also sometimes attributed to General Horatio Wright, who was present at the battle and actually got the President down to safety, but we regard it as unlikely that a sophisticated, mature general would have addressed the President so rudely
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.
