Strong Language Quotes
The President had told the library director that during his administrations he had received some very mean letters and perhaps one of two of them should be exhibited in the Presidential Library. The library staff looked through the letters and came up with one which Middleton then showed to LBJ.
He said this as he threw them out of his White House office.
Fischer was in the midst of a parliamentary debate and the President had ruled against him on a procedural matter.
To artist Peter Hurd, on seeing his official portrait for the first time:
Bohlen, Harry Hopkins and President Roosevelt were differing as to how to deal with one of the many ego difficulties of French leader Charles De Gaulle. Ever the diplomat, and trying to find common ground, Bohlen said:
He was furious at Donald Trump's campain promise to build a very hiogh wall alont the entire border between the U. S. and Mexico. But what galled most Mexicans more than anything else was that Trump promised that he would force the Mexican's to pay for the wall.
During the Bay of Pigs crisis the President was consulting congressional leaders including Senator Barry Goldwater, who had ambitions for the Presidency:
