Frankly, your 60s analysis calls your current judgment into question.
>> LBJ was a lot more than that. Devious, certainly; but a corrupt politician to the bone <<
Absolutely! Devious, slick, vulgar, corrupt, overweening, a womanizer, smart as a whip, you name it. Back in the days of my youth, I thought those were exactly the qualities we needed in a POTUS who was fighting the Vietnamese commies and their allies. Turns out I was wrong!