- Johnson was the only president to take the Oath of Office on an airplane from a woman.
- When approached by a reporter and asked a question he didn't like, he replied, "Why do you come and ask me, the leader of the Western world, a chicken-shit question like that?"
- The Johnson family saved tons of money on monogramming items. Almost every family member's name was initialed LBJ-
Lyndon Baines, Lady Bird, Lynda Bird, and Luci Baines.
- Lyndon B. Johnson was the youngest senate majority leader.
- Johnson loved the soda Fresca so much that he had a fountain installed in the Oval Office that would dispense the soda at the push of a button!
- His favorite foods were canned green peas and tapioca.
Lyndon Johnson died one mile from the house he was born in.
- He had to pet beagles named "Him" and "Her." Him's paw prints are imprinted in cement on the walkway leading to the White House press room. J. Edgar Hoover gave him another beagle named "Edgar."
- He liked to take visitors on 90 mph rides around his Texas ranch in his Lincoln Continental.
Johnson and his wife, "Lady Byrd", were married with a $2.50 wedding ring bought at Sears.
He rejected his official portrait painting, saying it was "the ugliest thing I ever saw."
Lyndon B. Johnson was once engaged to the daughter of a Texas Ku Klux
Klan leader. He broke it off when he heard what her father had said about him.
"I won’t have my daughter marrying into that no-account Johnson family. I’ve known that bunch all my life,
one generation after another of shiftless dirt farmers and grubby politicians.
Always sticking together and leeching into one another so the minute one starts to make it, the others drag him down.
None of them will ever amount to a damn."
- He was named after W.C. Linden, a lawyer and family friend.
