The Senate had for decades been a cruel joke against progress and reform. When Johnson stole his way into the Senate in January 1949, it looked as though he was just a further addition to the forces of reaction in that benighted institution. ![]() His initials were inscribed all over the LBJ Ranch he built in Texas in an attempt to exorcise those childhood ghosts. His initials were monogrammed on his belt buckle as they were on his shirts and on the gold cufflinks that bellowed 'LBJ' from each wrist. Johnson's oceanic ego was expressed in his wardrobe. ![]() Fearing to be on the unpopular side of public hysteria during the Red Scare, he could have, but did not, mobilise opinion against Joseph McCarthy before that fascist had blighted the lives of thousands of innocent Americans. He was a physical coward who went to great lengths to avoid combat service in World War II. As Lady Bird sat next to them, he would thrust his hand up another woman's skirt. He treated his devoted wife with abominable contempt. Inordinately proud of his sexual apparatus, Johnson was given to bragging: 'Jumbo had a real workout tonight.' He liked to pee in the washbasin in his office in front of female secretaries and then wave his member about. ![]() A favoured device to embarrass subordinates was obliging them to take his orders while he defecated. He sucked up to his superiors and kicked down on his inferiors. He was corrupt, cruel, callous, crude, a vicious user of women, a bully of men and a shameless thief of elections. Like many of his kind, he was driven by childhood demons, in this case the humiliation and insecurity suffered when his father lost the family ranch in Texas.
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