Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
Pretty damn good speech. Now if all you had to do to run for and be president was talk, Adlai'd be the best. But it ain't.
Adlai Stevenson had just finished a particularly good speech at the University of Texas.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1908-1973, 36th President of the United States (Democrat, TX), Remark to Sam Houston Johnson, 1955, Quoted in M. Miller, Lyndon B.: An Oral Biography, Putnam, 1980
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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.
