Lyndon B. Johnson

1908–1973 · 36th President of the United States

Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973) was the 36th President of the United States, taking office on the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. He had a long and combative relationship with the Washington press corps, which is the soil this particular joke grows in — though we could not find a primary record of him telling it.

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“If my critics saw me walking over the River Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim”

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Often misattributed to Lyndon B. Johnson

Famous lines widely pinned on Lyndon B. Johnson that we’ve traced to someone else.

“We shall overcome”

actually The civil-rights movement (a traditional anthem)

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