He wasn't inviting Barry Goldwater into the jakes--the stories about Johnson's crudeness came from his aides, who of course were Democrats. I have no first-hand

He wasn't inviting Barry Goldwater into the jakes--the stories about Johnson's crudeness came from his aides, who of course were Democrats. I have no first-hand knowledge, but the crudeness seems to have been well attested. I don't know that he was any more corrupt than many a politician of his day.