A man without a vote is a man without protection.
Lyndon B. JohnsonTags: voting lbj lyndon-b-johnson
Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns.
Noam ChomskyTags: politics christianity religion atheism united-states church fundamentalism 2008 baptism piety bill-clinton lyndon-b-johnson hymns united-states-elections-2008 jimmy-carter politics-of-the-united-states born-again-christianity political-campaigns
A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: politics war united-states george-w-bush governance iraq-war vietnam-war lyndon-b-johnson
He was to become the lawmaker for the poor and the downtrodden and the oppressed. He was to be the bearer of at least a measure of social justice to those whom social justice had so long been denied. The restorer of at least a measure of dignity to those who so desperately needed to be given some dignity. The redeemer of the promises made by them to America. “It is time to write it in the books of law.” By the time Lyndon Johnson left office he had done a lot of writing in those books, had become, above all presidents save Lincoln, the codifier of compassion, the president who wrote mercy and justice in the statute books by which America was governed.
Robert A. CaroTags: politics lbj lyndon-b-johnson legislation
It is not clear who will bring to the Whitehouse those useful commodities of vivid language, a sense of history and most important - a sense of humour, but Johnson himself will provide many other attributes. He is effective precisely because he is so determined, industrious, personal and even humourless, particularly in dealing with Congress. (…) Kennedy had a detached and even donnish willingness to grant a merit in the other fellow’s argument. Johnson is not so inclined to retreat and grants nothing in an argument, not even equal time. Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately. This may not be the most attractive quality of the new administration but it works. The lovers of style are not too happy with the new administration, but the lovers of substance are not complaining.
Robert A. CaroTags: politics kennedy lbj lyndon-b-johnson style-substance jack-kennedy
President Kennedy’s eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson’s hammer blows are designed to make men act.
Robert A. CaroTags: politics kennedy lbj lyndon-b-johnson jack-kennedy
Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.
Robert A. CaroTags: politics kennedy political-correctness lbj lyndon-b-johnson
He [Lyndon Baines Johnson]turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.
Herbert MitgangTags: lyndon-b-johnson
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