Johnson Quotes
When Lyndon Johnson was elected Vice President he, as the former Senate Majority Leader, wanted to lead the Democratic Senate Caucus. Gore objected because he thought that violated the separation of powers between the Executive and the Legislative branches, and he wanted the Senate to be independent from the administration. Despite Gore’s objection, Johnson was elected.
LBJ was depressed and thinking of not running for re-election.
The slavery issue also split the Cherokee. A number of the wealthier old families had and worked Black Slaves and they supported the South officially and militarily. Waite, the recipient of the letter, was a Confederate General.
To artist Peter Hurd, on seeing his official portrait for the first time:
The ambassador's hyperbole caused or was the excuse for President Lyndon Johnson to send the marines into the Dominican Republic. There were only two American civilian casualties—both were reporters accidently shot by U.S. Marines.
The President and Vice President Johnson were on a tour of Texas. In San Antonio and Houston Senator Ralph Yarborough refused to ride in the same car with the Vice President, a long time political foe. When the party reached Fort Worth, the President told Yarborough:
