on a side note - I just finished reading a book about the Secret Service - their history - how they got along with all the different presidents.
According to the book - Johnson was a vile creature - psychotically so. There were mixed feelings about the other guys, but when it comes down to naming the numero uno villain? That would be Lyndon Johnson.
Vile, vulgar,disgusting, rude, belligerent. He comes off as belonging in a mental institution rather than the Oval Office.
That reminds me .... ... the eyes of them that see
shall not be dim,
and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge,
and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity,
Rise up, ye women that are at ease; to practise hypocrisy,
The instruments also of the churl are evil: and to utter error against the LORD,
to make empty the soul of the hungry,
and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words,
But the liberal deviseth liberal things; even when the needy speaketh right.
and by liberal things shall he stand.
hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
Tremble, ye women that are at ease; Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women:
for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers;
yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
Because the palaces shall be forsaken;
the multitude of the city shall be left;
the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses,
a pasture of flocks; Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high,
Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and the wilderness be a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; And the work of righteousness shall be peace;
and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation,
and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
and the city shall be low in a low place.