Lyndon Johnson in Quotations from Speaker Newt Gingrich

On Welfare & Poverty: OpEd: Legacy of Great Society is red tape & deficits

In my lifetime, without question, the President who lied the most and did the most damage to the United States was Lyndon Johnson. It was Johnson who misled the American people about war in Asia. It was Johnson who designed a disastrous economic policy that fueled the inflation from which we are only now recovering. It was Johnson's politics of irresponsible promises which led to riots on the campuses and in the cities. It was Johnson's "Great Society" which is smothering us in red tape, fiscal deficits and massive bureaucracy.
--Newt Gingrich Speech, "The survival of the Two-Party System" (Ingram Library, West Georgia College) 1976 Source: Quotations from Speaker Newt, by A.&P. Bernstein, p. 82-3 Jan 1, 1995

The above quotations are from Quotations from Speaker Newt The Little Red, White and Blue Book of the Republican Revolution by Newt Gingrich and Amy D. Bernstein. Click here for other excerpts from Quotations from Speaker Newt The Little Red, White and Blue Book of the Republican Revolution by Newt Gingrich and Amy D. Bernstein. Click here for other excerpts by Lyndon Johnson. Click here for a profile of Lyndon Johnson.
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