Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.
Johnson, Lyndon B. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-64, Book II. United States Government Printing Office, 1965, p. 1290.
Owner of one of the only 2 Mexican Television Networks. There js no other industrial democracy that has a two party system; the others have 3 or more parties. Other democracies have their election day scheduled for a non-work day—usually a weekend. A number of states of the U. S. also allow voting on weekends and on multiple days. The individual states have the right (within limits) to set the time and rules of elections. Those states where conservatives have control tend to restrict voting as narrowly as they can, as their supporters tend to be more affluent and have jobs where they can vote on a Tuesday without economic penalty or family dislocation. Where liberals control, they tend to take steps to make voting very easy, especially of the poor and working class, as they have more supports in these groups.
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Actually, it was the Tea Party members of the Republican Party whose unprecedented willingness to risk the full faith and credit of the United States when the majority of the Republican legislators and almost all the Democrats were not, who held the required Debt Ceiling Increase hostage to getting their legislative way. But in this particular debate and legislation the Democrats gained nothing except that the anger of the American People was much greater against the Republicans than the Democrats, many of whose usual supporters thought that the Democrats had been totally intimidated by the Tea Party.
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.
