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Lyndon B. Johnson

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Lyndon B. Johnson is saying that no matter what impressive or unusual thing he did, people would still focus on a negative or irrelevant detail about him.

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