pardon me, but Caro dumps on Johnson at most every turn. He credits him for civil rights legislation but otherwise accuses him of stealing elections from nice Jeffersonian Democrats like the loathesome Coke Stevenson, buying votes, fixing contracts, using his government ties to make a fortune off his Austin radio station/television station, being a racist before he was a civil rights advocate, boorishness, unappreciative of Bobby Kennedy's virtues (never been able to figure out what any of them were) and responsible for the Viet Nam war.
as one of Johnson's other critical biographers, Texas liberal Robert Sherrill, wrote when the first Caro volume appeared, "this book is motivated by a great emotion-----hatred."
Like most Texas politicians then and now, Johnson was capable of a lot of evil and guilty of a fair share of it.