“Johnson was in the KKK says an anonymous source who says that Ned Touchstone said. At least twice removed hearsay. I guess there was a deep state even in 1963.”
Not just third hand hearsay but third hand hearsay from a dead guy with a fake name.
I am more than a little skeptical of any claims that LBJ was ever in the Ku Klux Klan. Klan influence in the Lone Star State declined after 1924, when Felix D. Robertson, a member of the Dallas Klan, was defeated for the governorship in 1924 by Ma (Miriam Amanda) Ferguson. Johnson graduated from high school in that year, and spent the next two years in California. By 1928, Klan membership in Texas had declined to around 2,500, and most prominent supporters had abandoned the organization. Johnson entered the political sphere in 1931, working for Congressman Richard Kleberg. Klan membership would not have benefited him in the 1930s, especially as his native Hill Country had a large German-American population, which was Unionist during the Civil War and had little affiliation with the KKK, which was nativist to the core. The Texas KKK was strongest in the 1920s in cities like Dallas, where it was more anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant than anti-black, similar to the appeal in cities like Denver and Indianapolis. Additionally, Texas did not experience the Klan revival that occurred in the Southeast in the post-World War II era.
It is quite unlikely that Lyndon Johnson, who really had no ideology other than his own ambition, ever became a Klansman.