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LBJ es una película de drama político estadounidense de 2016 sobre el comienzo de la administración del presidente de EE. UU. Lyndon B. Johnson tras el asesinato del presidente de EE. UU. John F. Kennedy. Fue dirigida por Rob Reiner y escrita por Joey Hartstone, cuyo guion estuvo en la Black List de 2014. La película está protagonizada por Woody Harrelson como el presidente titular, junto con Richard Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Kim Allen, Michael Stahl-David, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeffrey Donovan, Doug McKeon, C. Thomas Howell y Michael Mosley. La fotografía principal tuvo lugar en Nueva Orleans, Baton Rouge, Dallas y Washington, D. C. de septiembre a diciembre de 2015. La película se estrenó en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto el 9 de septiembre de 2016. Fue estrenada en cines por Electric Entertainment y Vertical Entertainment el 3 de noviembre de 2017. La película recibió reseñas mixtas de los críticos, quienes la calificaron de "superficial" y criticaron el maquillaje de Harrelson, y algunos compararon la película negativamente con la película de HBO de 2016 sobre Johnson, All the Way. Trama La historia comienza cuando el vicepresidente Lyndon B. Johnson y su esposa, Lady Bird Johnson, reciben al presidente John F. Kennedy y a la primera dama Jackie Kennedy el 22 de noviembre de 1963, en Dallas, Texas. Mientras Kennedy es recibido cálidamente por la multitud, un Johnson claramente descontento es virtualmente ignorado.

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“Making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg. It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.”
— Private comment, as quoted in Name-Dropping (1999) by John Kenneth Galbraith, p. 149.
“Let's face it. Our ass is in a crack. We're gonna have to let this nigger bill pass.”
— Said to Senator John Stennis (D-MS) during debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1957. As quoted in
“Well, I think we may have lost the south for your lifetime—and mine.”
— Comment to journalist and special assistant Bill Moyers, as quoted in Charles Kaiser, " 'We May Have Lost the South': What LBJ Really Said About Democrats in 1964", The Guardian, January 23, 2023
“There are no problems which we cannot solve together, and there are very few which any of us can settle by himself.”
— President Johnson's thirty-fourth news conference was held on the front lawn at the LBJ Ranch, Johnson City, Tex., at 10:45 a.m. on Saturday, November 28, 1964. Source: Lyndon B. Johnson, The President's News Conference at the LBJ Ranch. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley from The American Presidency Project.
“I hope that you of the IPA will go out into the hinterland and rouse the masses and blow the bugles and tell them that the hour has arrived and their day is here; that we are on the march against the ancient enemies and we are going to be successful.”
— Remarks to the International Platform Association (August 3, 1965); reported in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965, book 2, p. 822
“It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”
— On FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, as quoted in The New York Times (31 October 1971)

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