Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.
Caro, Robert A. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power. Alfred A. Knopf, 2012, p. 119.
Many people think that running a corporation is good training and demonstrates the ability to run the country. However, business leaders who have come into government, almost all like Breton, think the two are very different.
The Liberals had not won enough seats to form a majority government, and in the Parliamentary system, they had to form an alliance with a smaller party and govern with a minority.
This is an interesting variation of the FDR quotation regarding the President and Congress.
The freshman Congresswoman objected to the Congress playing a secondary role to the President.
The President had threatened to veto a budget bill if it contained a provision that would increase taxes for the wealthy. There were not enough votes to override the veto. The majority leader urged dropping the provision:
The Navy developed a program to disperse the home bases of the U. S. based fleet. They called it "home porting" which became "home porking" to detractors who accused the navy of spreading out the money in order to curry favor with congress rather than making cost effective military decisions. One opponent of the program was Barry Goldwater, the senior senator from Arizona—a landlocked state:
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.
