No it doesn't. It depends on the reader having enough common sense to understand and comprehend what they're being told.
LBJ a man of honor? This may be the first time LBJ and honor were ever used in the same sentence. Nobody ever accused him of being a man of honor, or whatever it may have been you were trying to infer from the posted comment. Larger than life? Absolutely. There is no "depends on your definition" b.s. about it.
He earned his place in Texas folklore and history just like Racehorse Haynes, Cullen Davis, Clayton Williams, the Bass Bros, Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker, Judge Roy Bean, and John Wesley Hardin. Notorious? With a doubt. Scoundrel? It goes without saying. The stuff that legends are made of? You bet.
He brought Nasa to a struggling Houston economy, did more for civil rights than Lincoln, picked his dogs up by their ears, cussed like a sailor, drank like a fish, and received more votes from dead people than from living people. He made it onto the ticket with Kennedy because Kennedy couldn't have won Texas or the election without him, and because he knew more about dirty politics and vote rigging than any man alive at the time. If all of that wasn't enough, he would still be remembered in Texas history books as being the husband of one of the most respected women in the history of Texas.
Depends on your definition of "Larger-than-Life."?
Only to foreigners from Tennessee or some place, where they don't have the common sense of road kill.
. I don't work for the Chamber of Commerce and I don't consider LBJ someone to build ledends. What he did for Houston was no more than what Trent Lot did for Pascagoula, Civil Rights was already a done deal by congress and Johnson took this country off to a war that he was not willing to win. All those other legends you spoke of aren't responsible for the deaths and injuries of thousands. Your right, Larger than Life.
We could probably start a separate thread with LBJ stories and jokes.
Have you heard that he used to hunt deer at night, using the spotlights on his truck to freeze them in their tracks?
He probably had more blackmail material on Congress than Bill Clinton ever did. Also, he may have bedded more wonem.