Lyndon Baines Johnson
(1908–73)

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Anecdote 1...

LBJ had a vast store of preacher stories. One of his favorites was about the clergyman who dropped his sermon notes while heading for church and couldn't retrieve them before the dog chewed them up. "When the preacher went into the pulpit," said LBJ, "he apologized to his congregation and said, 'I am very sorry, today I have no sermon. I will just have to speak as the Lord directs. But I will try to do better next Sunday.' "

Anecdote 2...

What's the hurry?" one Senator complained to another when the hard-driving Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson, kept the Senate working late. "After all, Rome wasn't built in a day."

"No," sighed the other Senator, "but Lyndon Johnson wasn't foreman on that job."

These two anecdotes about Lyndon Johnson were taken from Presidential Anecdotes by Paul F Boller, Jr.

View Johnson with his dog in the Oval Office.

View Johnson with his beagles, Him and Her.


Biographical Note...

U.S statesman; 36th president of the United States (1963-69). Succeeding to the presidency after the asssassination of John F. Kennedy, Johnson initiated his Great Society program to stimulate economic growth and promote civil rights legislation. His administration, however, lost popularity as Americans increasingly rejected involvement in the Vietnam War. Johnson liked to remind people that he was the first Texan to get to the White House.

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