Was Lyndon Johnson a bully?

Lyndon Baines Johnson was a monster. 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. read more

Lyndon Johnson was a successful Senate majority leader, and running either house of Congress is like herding cats. There is no way to do it successfully without being a bully at times. You also need to be a persuader and a cajoler. read more

WASHINGTON – President Lyndon B. Johnson put the bully into the bully pulpit. He knew where all the political bodies were buried, and he used that knowledge to cajole, coerce, and convince. When five presidents gather at the LBJ Library in Austin to commemorate the 50 th anniversary of the passage of the landmark 1964 civil rights bill, each must in his own way be envious of Lyndon Johnson’s domestic achievements. read more

LBJ: Paranoid, Narcissist, Bully, Sadist & Lout Historian and JFK assassination expert Robert Morrow was kind enough to send over to me extensive excerpts from two books about Lyndon Baines Johnson, one was by long time Johnson aide, George Reddy. read more