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What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

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The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

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I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

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We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

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Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

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You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

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To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: August 27th, 1908

Died: January 22nd, 1973

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