Lyndon B. Johnson
(August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973)
Lyndon B. Johnson was a US representative [D-Texas] from April 1937 to January 1949; a US senator [D-Texas] from January 1949 to January 1961; Senate Majority Whip from January 1951 to January 1953; Senate Minority Leader from January 1953 to January 1955; Senate Majority Leader from January 1955 to January 1961; vice president of the United States from January 1961 to November 1963, and president of the United States from November 1963 to January 1969.
“In Memory of President Kennedy”
November 25, 1963
“I Would Be Honored to Do It”
November 29, 1963
“You’re Goddamn Sure Going to Serve”
November 29, 1963
“You Give Me Strength”
December 2, 1963
"We've Been Talking Enough"
December 9, 1963
“He’s for Grandma”
December 14, 1963
“I’m Not Lying About That One”
January 1, 1964
“Never Felt Better in My Life”
January 6, 1964
“I’m Not a Hater and a Bigot”
January 6, 1964
“Finest Advertisement He Could Give Me”
January 8, 1964
“Hot as a Firecracker”
January 10, 1964
“It’s Poison”
January 15, 1964
“Find Some of the Top People”
January 16, 1964
“Can’t You Help Me”
January 23, 1964
“This Is What We Stand For”
January 28, 1964
“That Wasn’t Smart at All”
February 1, 1964
“You’re Mr. Poverty”
February 1, 1964
“I Think It’s Dynamite”
February 6, 1964
“We Don’t Want Your Damn Water”
February 7, 1964
“Before It Goes to Hell”
February 19, 1964
“More War” or “More Appeasement”
February 25, 1964
“A Good B-Plus”
March 7, 1964
“It Is a Major Disaster”
March 28, 1964
“The Biggest Damn Mess I Ever Saw”
May 27, 1964
“It’s a Mess”
May 27, 1964
“Our National Honor’s at Stake”
June 11, 1964
A “Three-Prong Approach” to Medicare
June 11, 1964
“Y’all Can’t Keep a Secret”
June 15, 1964
“I’m Just as Close as the Phone”
June 20, 1964
“Go On and Report My Poverty Bill”
June 22, 1964
“We Found the Car”
June 23, 1964
“You’re a Hard Bargainer”
June 23, 1964
“We Got Three Kids Missing”
June 23, 1964
“Likely That None of Them Were Burned”
June 23, 1964
“You Got Lots of Guts”
June 30, 1964
Turning “Tax-Eaters” into “Taxpayers”
July 29, 1964
“Just Merely to Tell You I Loved You”
August 4, 1964
“Modernizing Urban Hospitals”
August 4, 1964
“You Can’t Talk About War Plans”
August 6, 1964
“I’d a Whole Lot Rather Dick Daley Do It”
August 7, 1964
“Keep the Boys That Should Be Sober, Sober”
August 7, 1964
LBJ Orders Some New Haggar Pants
August 9, 1964
“A Very, Very Ambitious Young Man”
August 17, 1964
“I Do Not Believe I Can”
August 25, 1964
“That’s What the Democratic Party’s For”
August 25, 1964
“They Can’t Argue with Themselves”
September 9, 1964
“They’re More Likely to Get Me Killed”
September 28, 1964
“That Wasn’t What Killed Kennedy”
October 1, 1964
“We’re Going to Carry the South”
October 7, 1964
“I Think He Ought to Be Institutionalized”
October 23, 1964
“A Better Way to Do It”
October 27, 1964
"We Have Time to Get Organized”
November 3, 1964
“I’m Aching All Over”
November 3, 1964
“A Passion for Anonymity”
November 4, 1964
“We Got to Try to Unite the Country”
November 4, 1964
“I’m Just So Honored”
November 4, 1964
“We’ve Got to Build That Up”
November 4, 1964
“He’d Have Been Beat”
November 4, 1964
Better Days
November 5, 1964
“We’ve Got to Work Our Will”
November 5, 1964
Dr. Spock on Medicare Politics
November 6, 1964
“We Can Pass Medicare”
November 9, 1964
“Put Some Better People on Your Team”
November 16, 1964
“A Model of Law Enforcement”
November 18, 1964
“OK, Go Ahead”
November 21, 1964
“It’ll Hurt Us”
November 23, 1964
“Militarily, A Highly Successful Operation”
November 24, 1964
“A Right to Vote”
January 15, 1965
“They Want Beauty”
February 5, 1965
“Sure Thought I Had Better Leadership”
March 1, 1965
“Make Them Go Vote for Education”
March 6, 1965
“I’ll Spend the Goddamn Money”
March 6, 1965
“This Minister Is Going to Die, Isn’t He?”
March 10, 1965
“He Is Absolutely Treacherous”
March 18, 1965
“We Got a Fair Chance to Keep Up”
March 23, 1965
“It’s a Great Bill, Mr. President”
March 23, 1965
“$400 Million’s Not Going to Separate Us”
March 23, 1965
“We Know Who They Are”
March 26, 1965
“All These Harvard Men”
April 7, 1965
“We Weren’t Killing Dominicans”
May 5, 1965
“Where Do You Stop”
June 8, 1965
“Be My Solicitor General”
July 7, 1965
“I Don’t Want to Be a Warmonger”
July 7, 1965
“A Very Complex Problem”
July 7, 1965
“Unite Their Families”
July 23, 1965
LBJ, King, and the Watts Revolt
August 20, 1965
“He Ought to Be Removed”
August 23, 1965
“Get the Immigration Bill Reported”
August 26, 1965
“He’s Giving Me Lots of Problems”
August 27, 1965
“We Need Your Help”
September 10, 1965
“Make the Law Bend to the Problem”
September 14, 1965
“They’re Trying to Pressure You”
December 24, 1965
“He’s a Fool”
December 27, 1965
“It Doesn’t Bother Me One Bit”
January 25, 1966
“Then We’re Really in It All”
January 26, 1966
“The Architect of Surrender”
February 1, 1966
No “One-Way Deal”
February 2, 1966
“Don’t Make the Government Fall”
February 4, 1966
“The President Has This Authority”
February 20, 1966
“He Is a Master Strategist”
February 21, 1966
“What I’m Really Worrying About”
February 22, 1966
“That Scares Me”
March 14, 1966
“A Wasteful Thing”
June 2, 1966
“I Didn’t Say I’d Use Atomic Bombs”
October 3, 1966
“A Paragraph on Nonproliferation”
October 16, 1966
“It’s Just So Unfair”
December 5, 1966
“Don’t Let Them Get You Down”
December 27, 1966
“It’s for the Economy”
February 7, 1967
“Reports of Heavy Fighting”
June 5, 1967
“We Made a Little Progress There”
June 25, 1967
“We’ll Find Some Central Theme”
July 25, 1967
“This Country’s in Trouble”
July 27, 1967
“We Just Have Got to Act Quickly”
January 24, 1968
“It’s Largely a Propaganda Effort”
January 31, 1968
“No Nuclear Weapons in South Vietnam”
February 19, 1968
“The Trouble with a Commission”
March 13, 1968
"I'm Not Master of a Damn Thing"
March 24, 1968
“Our Friendship Was Never Severed”
March 31, 1968
“We’re Doing Everything We Can”
April 4, 1968
“It’s Starting to Break Down”
April 6, 1968
“It’s a Horrible, Tragic Thing”
June 5, 1968
“My Congratulations and My Sympathy”
August 8, 1968
“Something [on] the Order of Hungary”
August 20, 1968
“Let’s Don’t Mislead and Deceive People”
August 26, 1968
“I Thought We Were Going to Confirm Him”
August 27, 1968
“The Vice Presidency Is an Impossible Job”
August 29, 1968
“A Very Disgusting Performance”
August 29, 1968
The Chicago Seven
September 7, 1968
“He’ll Stop the Bombing if Elected”
September 30, 1968
“This Is Treason”
November 2, 1968
“I Feel Very, Very Strongly About This”
November 3, 1968
“We’ve Been in Tears”
November 6, 1968
“You Go to That Conference“
November 8, 1968
“There’s No Arrangement“
November 14, 1968