Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
Johnson, Lyndon B. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965, Book II. United States Government Printing Office, 1966, p. 883.
In the internecine warfare in the Iraq War many of the Iraqis who worked with and for the United States during the war, were threatened and many killed. Unlike the Ford Administration in the Vietnam War, which had resettled almost 200,000 Asians who had worked with America and were in danger of retaliation, the George W. Bush Administration would not allow the people who were loyal to United States forces in the war to immigrate to the U. S.
The import is that if the two are in conflict you should sacrifice your life to do your duty.
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.
