"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'“


-Lyndon B. Johnson

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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

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