"I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it."
-Lyndon B. Johnson
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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.“
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