Urban legend: Did John F. Kennedy Proclaim Himself to Be a Jelly Doughnut? | Snopes.com
I went through five pages of hits and didn’t find any that weren’t from right-wing blogs. I suppose it would be censored if published in a reputable source, so that might be why.
Always wondered who said that first.
Searching on just the remainder of the phrase and “Johnson” still yields no reputable sources. Ergo, you didn’t fail to find a cite because the word was bowdlerized; you failed to find a cite becase there isn’t any to find.
Doubly wrong.
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There is no basis for such an interpretation.
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Even if there were a basis for such an interpretation, the statement so interpreted would be the simple truth. This can be proven by a simple experiment: establish a business with mediocre management in the midst of society and a business with (otherwise) topnotch management on a desert island, and see which one propspers.
Well, only the word “niggers” might be censored. But, if I substitute “blacks” or “negroes,” my search yields the same results. And, it’s not at all hard to find well-sourced quotes of LBJ saying extremely nasty things.
GW Bush, “The thing about books is that sometimes there nice pictures.” huh?
“Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning.”
- George W. Bush Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
Huh. My German teachers at university told us he did do that.
It is both widespread and wrong: Ich bin ein Berliner - Wikipedia
Warren G. Harding:
“America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.”
“Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.”
“The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.”
“I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends, my god-damned friends, White, they’re the ones who keep me walking the floor nights!”
“I don’t know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don’t know where the book is, and maybe I couldn’t read it if I found it.”
“I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.”
This quote would have been way out of character. Johnson was a political animal. He probably understood voting better than any other President.
Only somebody who was politically naive would brag about gaining black voters in the sixties. Johnson understood he was losing several white voters for every black voter he gained. And he was a deeply egotistical man who never wanted to do look naive.
Can’t trust those damned Krauts! shakes fist at them
Although now that I think back, it was just one teacher who told us, and she was a native-English-speaking American graduate student being used as a teaching assistant.
Or some sort, at any rate . . .
Speaking of President Johnson, this isn’t a quote, but I once read that as a young man, he hitchhiked all the way to the West Coast and back from Texas. I kind of like that.
Bush Junior: “I’m the decider.”
… and “I’m the commander guy.”