Lyndon Baines Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908 - 1973), also known as Lyndon B Johnson is short, or simply by his initials LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He had previously served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963 under President John F. Kennedy, and was sworn in shortly after Kennedy's assassination. He was a Democrat politician from Texas who served in all elected offices at the federal level.

Wisdom & Quotes

• You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down.

- quoted in Doris Kearns, Lyndon Johnson and the Amazing Dream

• A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right.

- State of the Union speech, 1965

Leo Calvin Rosten