[beckett]

Hamilton deliberately makes it seems as though he knows that LBJ bedded interns and students. If these liaisons have been documented, I haven't seen it. It is alleged that Clinton himself told a story during his Oxford years about LBJ making love on the presidential seal in the Oval Office, but this self-serving story only came out after the Lewinsky scandal broke. As we all know, Clinton did everything possible to stain the reputations of the Presidents who came before him in order to make his own actions look less reprehensible. So if Hamilton, a biographer of Clinton, is using Clinton as his source for these charges, obviously that's not enough.

I don't doubt that Johnson was not as pure as the driven snow. In fact, just a few weeks ago I heard a repulsively treacly conversation between LBJ and Jackie Kennedy recorded after Nov. 22, 1963 in which Johnson's pathetic attempt at lighthearted flirtation sounded more like a dirty old man drooling over a hooker. But I would still need to see documentation, corroboration of some kind, that he seduced "students and interns" before I put stock in the word of a Clinton toady like Hamilton.

[okie01]

"Hamilton deliberately makes it seems as though he knows that LBJ bedded interns and students. If these liaisons have been documented, I haven't seen it."

If it wiggled, LBJ would make a move on it. If it was cooperative, LBJ would bed it. He was not a picky man.

I don't know about "interns", per se, but "the age of consent" would've been a meaningless abstraction.

As you observed, LBJ could come across as a "dirty old man". Because that's what he was: a dirty old man...drunk with power.

Altogether, a disgusting human being -- who was an even more disastrous president, perhaps, than the First Felon.