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Understood. Oil lobbyists must be sentenced to 15 years hard labor

“Once not seeing her at a public function, he demanded, with something of his old snarl, ‘Where’s Lady Burd?’ And she replied, “Rifht behind you, darling. Where I’ve always been. ‘“


The hippies should’ve beaten him with hammers

Water or not Lyndon Johnskn talked about “principled things” or believed in “princilldd things” —and in in both the public housing and minimum wage fights he had all but ignored the issues and concentrated in manuvers— he had won principled things, for hundreds of thousands of Americans who needed those things

“Did you read biography on Johnson. Terrible book. It makes Johnson feel like a goddamn animal…of course he was” - Richard Nixon

Genuinely a miracle LBJ was born in 20th america. If he were anywhere else in any other part of history he’d have become a tyrant

Insane how amazing this man was at getting votes

fuck everything I said before. LBJ was a genius

Reading this sometimes feels like both a horror story and a Shakespearean tragedy mixed together. This man maneuvers through politics and men like a snake maneuvers through a rain forest, with ease and eager to constrict and consume anything in its path. Johnson almost feels like a force of nature at times and this force will inevitably lead to millions of dead Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians