"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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"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.“
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"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous."
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"I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war."
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"This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty."
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"The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business."
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