Kennedy made Clinton look like a choirboy. I don’t know much about Johnson’s personal life.
Kennedy had the Secret Service deliver prostitutes to the white house daily. His doctor kept him pumped full of antibiotics he came in with syphilis or gonorrhea so many times.
There’s more. Find the book “The Dark Side of Camelot”. It’s a very good write up of Kennedy’s days in politics, with only a short chapter on the assassination. Two inches thick, lots of good reading with interviews with people who were in the middle of it all and loads of research. But the book didn’t go into Johnson’s personal life.
Johnson blackmailed Kennedy to get the VP seat. They hated each other. Bobby Kennedy called Johnson an ogre. John said LBJ embodied everything he hated about Washington politics. They had a list of people to pick from, decided on their running mate and called a meeting of the people on the list, to announce who and to hand out appointments to the others to avoid political enemies.
Johnson barged in just before the meeting, his name was definitely NOT on the list, a half hour later he was VP. Kennedy kept him in the background and never let him have any power, he knew if Johnson had any power he would be running the place in 2 weeks. Johnson was well known around DC as a tyrant. When he took over after Kennedy was killed, he walked into Kennedy’s personal secretary’s office (Evelyn Kennedy? I can’t remember for sure, but not related.) and bluntly told her she had 90 minutes to clear out. When he told earl Warren he wanted him to head up the Kennedy investigation, Warren didn’t want to do it. He told him Goddammit I want you to do it, you’ll damn well do it. when Kennedy was killed, Johnson insisted on being sworn in before Air Force one left Dallas, so Bobby couldn’t find a way to remove him before he landed in DC. He knew Bobby would try.
That was Johnson. Complete power mad tyrant. The only way he could have gotten Kennedy to agree to bring him in as VP was blackmail. He knew about JFK’s women, and used it for blackmail. He won his first election, high school president, by cheating and strong arming students into voting for him. Corrupt as they get, and that’s when the serious corruption infiltrated the white house.
Kennedy was no saint, still, he did stare down Khrushchev, and Khrushchev blinked. He did some good things, even though he had the morals of an alley cat.
Democrats yawned.
This country has become a filthy barn that needs a thorough cleaning top to bottom.