I never knew LBJ was so crass....

[OldDem2012]

49. If you can point out a few Haley's facts they you believe are fabrications,....

...I'll take your comments under advisement. Too many other sources have hinted at, or outright accused LBJ of many of the same things Haley does, and they're not right-wingers. For instance:

Joachim Joesten argued in his book, The Dark Side of Lyndon Baines Johnson (1968) that Haley's book, A Texan Looks at Lyndon is an important source of information on Lyndon B. Johnson: "Haley's book may not be a masterpiece in the strictly scholarly sense, and it is certainly not a bible of my political creed, but as source material it is invaluable. For the author is not only a fellow-countryman of Lyndon B. Johnson, but an insider of Texas politics and an old political pro in his own right... That this biography of Lyndon B. Johnson is coloured to a considerable extent by bitterness at his own failure in the political game, as well as by an ingrained dislike of the Rooseveltian tradition (which, alas, also produced LBJ) and a generally ultra-conservative stance, I do not doubt. Still, even after making generous allowance for possible exaggeration due to these factors, there remains in his book so much well-documented fact that it cannot possibly be bypassed by anyone seeking enlightenment about the dark recesses of the Johnson story."

Don't forget that LBJ represented the Southern, and conservative, branch of the Democratic Party. Many of his personal and professional friends in the Democratic Party, like John Connally, would later switch to the GOP. Haley was undoubtedly an ultra-conservative to the right of LBJ, but he was also a member of the Democratic Party.