LBJ stole an election (Box 13) and later got the the White House via another stolen election (1960) and a political assassination.
The first 2 are not in dispute and the 3rd happened under questionable circumstances.
And yet people still LIKE LBJ. All of their agner at him over escalating Vietnam disapated over time and they do not GAF about his stolen elections or cronyism.
What really chaps my behind about LBJ is that he cynically pushed for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 only to steal the moral high ground on race from the Republicans, and combined that with expanding the welfare state such that the black family has been destroyed and many blacks are dependent on the government for their well-being. And it is all compounded by calling conservatives bigots to keep it that way.
That’s what has made blacks such loyal voters to the Democrats these last fifty-odd years. Everything they do is about gaining and holding power, at the expense of those they claim to be helping. And they will do anything. There is no lie they won’t tell, no bribe they won’t offer, no life they won’t destroy. From that perspective, LBJ was a giant to them.