Quotes About Johnson

I knew Dionysus must've filled it out, because he stubbornly insisted on getting my name wrong: Dear _______Peter Johnson__________

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

Lincoln dumped his bland second-in-command, Hannibal Hamlin, for Johnson

At Lincoln's second inaugural, a drunken Johnson, who had had one too many whiskeys that morning, plunged into a long, rambling, incoherent discourse, shouting about his humble origins and lecturing the assembled dignitaries from the Supreme Court and the diplomatic corps ("With all your fine feathers and gew-gaws") that they were merely "creatures of the people." Then, as he took his oath, Johnson visibly and audibly slobbered upon the Bible.

Because sports and mythology often intertwine, the Game 6 narrative has often been one that evokes the best of a cheesy feel-good Hollywood production. Not only did Johnson take the jump ball, he won it, dribbled down the court, did a 360-degree midair flip and dunked over Julius Erving—blindfolded while eating a slice of cheesecake. Not quite.

For northern liberals, Vietnam was a much more divisive issue than voting rights and integrated drinking fountains, and many supported Johnson's effort to stem the spread of international Communism.

I'm happy to talk to liberal media, and we often have good conversations.

'Looper' was a wonderful script. Rian Johnson is the real deal and a really talented filmmaker.

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.

fork and embarrassing him. And there was another dinner in Paris. Johnson decided, at the last minute, not to go. And Busby, who did go, recalled that a member of the French Senate came up to him and asked where Johnson was, and Busby answered, He couldn't come tonight. And the French senator said, Oh I was so looking

Russell called the move "a lynching of orderly procedure in the Senate." Johnson's angry response—that "this was the only kind of lynching he had ever heard Russell object to"—was blurted out only in private

After he returned from Washington, Johnson came into Rowe's room and said, "I agree with everything you said." Perhaps he did agree—intellectually. But he didn't take the advice. He couldn't. He was beyond listening to warnings, as was demonstrated the next day, when the convention opened.

Emerging from the caucus, Johnson told reporters that he had no plans to release his delegates; "My name will stay as long as the American people are interested.

The newspaper columnist James Reston wrote that "President Kennedy's eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson's hammer blows are designed to make men act.

During bull sessions at the Dodge, Johnson, echoing one of Miller's pet phrases, would say of Roosevelt: "He's spending us into bankruptcy." The President's first priority, he would repeat emphatically, should be to "balance the budget.

Johnson was a widow with long white hair worn in a knot at the back of her head

My degrees are in physics and space physics, and I did well enough in university that I actually started working at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, as a robotics flight controller right after college.

Maybe I'm a little biased, but I thought I could always play defense.

I am delighted to resume the leadership of both companies.

Never denied climate change. It has always changed and always will.

Mother is a statement of fact. Cecile Johnson gave birth to us. We came out of Cecile Johnson. In the animal kingdom that makes her our mother. Every mammal on the planet has a mother, dead or alive. Ran off or stayed put. Cecile Johnson—mammal birth giver, alive, an abandoner—is our mother. A statement of fact.

President Kennedy's eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson's hammer blows are designed to make men act.

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.