Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. Harper & Row, 1976.
Referring to Gerald R. Ford: The quotation is usually cleaned up by substitutiong the word "walk" for "fart". Ford was actually a very bright man, but had an unassuming style that was vulnerable to negative characterization.
Before Governor Mecham was impeached, Senator John McCain called for his resignation. After Mecham was impeached for misusing State funds and thwarting investigations of death threats, he commented upon McCain's qualifications for a place on the Republican national ticket:
Some of the Right Wing attacks in President Obama were without any foundation of facts. All presidents have to work extremely hard, and if they were not “workaholics” they could not even get nominated for the post. Many critics saw a racist element in this attack. In Sununu’s youth there was a slander by which racists used to refer to Blacks as “lazy and shiftless”. Obama was the first Black President and whereas that demonstrated that the nation had gotten past much of its racism, some still remained and this might have been a vestige of it.
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.
