Famous Quotes | But now Nixon has come along and...
But now Nixon has come along and everything I’ve worked for is ruined. There’s a story in the paper every day about him slashing another one of my Great Society programs. I can just see him waking up in the morning, making that victory sign of his and deciding which program to kill. It’s a terrible thing for me to sit by and watch someone else starve my Great Society to death. She’s getting thinner and thinner and uglier and uglier all the time; now her bones are beginning to stick out and her wrinkles are beginning to show. Soon she’ll be so ugly that the American people will refuse to look at her; they’ll stick her in a closet to hide her away and there she’ll die. And when she dies, I, too, will die.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
Attribution: Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973), U.S. president. LBJ and the American Dream, ch. 10, pp. 286-287, Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1971). Comment on Nixon administration.
Categories: Contempt, Politics, President, Society
