Quote for the Day: Lyndon Baines Johnson

"Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chickenshit can turn to chicken salad."

- Lyndon Baines Johnson, 

asked by a reporter to comment on Johnson's embrace of Vice President Richard Nixon upon Nixon's return to the US after a politically successful visit to Venezuela. The reporter had previously heard Johnson refer to Nixon as "chicken shit". 

The online Free Dictionary:

"Chickenshit":

noun:

1. A coward.

2. Contemptibly petty, insignificant nonsense.

adjective:

1. Cowardly; afraid.

2. Contemptibly unimportant; petty.