Quotes from the World for Thursday 04/14/V3.1

All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn’t fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd; nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn’t fair.

Lyndon Baines Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973), U.S. president. LBJ and the American Dream, epilogue, p. 356, Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1971).

On writing his memoirs.