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* [[Landslide Election]]: Goldwater lost horribly.
* [[My New Gift Is Lame]]: He made headlines when he gave the Pope a ''bust of himself''. A bust of Lyndon Johnson.
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: Infamously accused his 1964 opponent Barry Goldwater of this through the "Daisies" ad, saying Barry Goldwater was likely to cause nuclear war. Despite its effectiveness, it would take another fifty years before another democrat ([[Hillary Clinton]]) created a 'sequel', for several probable reasons that are too long to enumerate here and would be mostly pointless speculation anyway.
* [[Never Live It Down]]: Johnson is commonly seen as the President that got America into the Vietnam War. Part of the reason he left office was due to angry crowds of protesters outside the White House accusing him of murdering their children.
* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: "[https://web.archive.org/web/20121123110021/http://www.uiowa.edu/commstud/resources/nonverbal/lbj.htm The Johnson Treatment]" was less about not having a sense of personal space and more about deliberately invading other people's to influence them. The fact that he was really tall definitely helped.
* [[Riddle for the Ages]]: The nomination of Kennedy over Johnson was an ugly business, and an air of mystery still looms over the fateful decision to make him Kennedy's Vice-President. Not surprisingly, ''LBJ killed JFK'' ranks high on between the endless conspiracy theories about the assassination.
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right|Screw The Advice, I'm Doing What's Right]]: Johnson and his wife marched in JFK's funeral procession despite being told not to by the Secret Service and the FBI, in fear of a second assassination. He was later paraphrased as saying he "could do, should do, would do, and did" march in the procession.
* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: With his Vice President [[Hubert Humphrey]]. Johnson was a boisterous, domineering loudmouth who enjoyed hunting and speeding along his ranch in a pick up truck. Humphrey was a gabby, yet sensitive man who was prone to tearing up. He also let Johnson dominate him during the extant of their working relationship.
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