“ Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light i… Noam Chomsky
“ President Kennedy’s eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson’s hammer blows are designed to make men act. Robert A. Caro
“ Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately. Robert A. Caro
“ It is not clear who will bring to the Whitehouse those useful commodities of vivid language, a sense of history and most important - a sense of humour, but Johnson himself will provide many other attr… Robert A. Caro
“ He was to become the lawmaker for the poor and the downtrodden and the oppressed. He was to be the bearer of at least a measure of social justice to those whom social justice had so long been denied.… Robert A. Caro
“ A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war. Glenn Greenwald