The tapes and his retrospectives from people who knew him are not always kind to LBJ. He was a crass man that wanted to talk to people on the toilet as a form of intimidation. If you want to laugh, listen to the tape of him ordering a pair of tailored pants for himself. Let’s just say it is not something I would have recorded.
LBJ supposedly peed on a Secret Service man a s the man was trying to frantically hide the president from being seen as he was taking a whiz outdoors. He was kind of lucky most of this material came out long after his death.
Now there is a part of history where LBJ and Martin Luther King parted ways, it was the Viet Nam War. I would like to see a film on Martin Luther King and his fight with the liberal establishment in the Johnson administration over the Viet Nam War. It created a split in the Civil Rights movement between those who appreciated what LBJ did for civil rights and those leaders like King who saw the Viet Nam War as killing primarily young and poor Americans white and black.