Lady Bird Johnson Quotes

• This country needs to be united. And sadly, sadly, he wasn’t the man who could do it.

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• We were distant. But that suited both of us.

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• Mrs Kennedy is going to marry Aristotle Socrates Onassis!… I feel strangely freer! No shadow walks behind me down the halls of the White House.

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• I face the prospect of another campaign like an open-ended stay in a concentration camp.

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• Somehow that was one of the most poignant sights —that immaculate woman, exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood.

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• We had a delicious dinner of too much.

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• Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

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• The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

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• The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

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• It’s odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don’t quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

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• Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

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• Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

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• A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

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• The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

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• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

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• Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

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Birth:	22nd December, 1912
Death:	11th July, 2007
Nationality:	American
Profession:	First Lady, Entrepreneur

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