text:  And basically, you know, he was a big drinker, as you said, and a lot of the stuff that he said was exaggerated or false. Or he had repeated a million times before. Or he'd repeat these anecdotes that everybody told, and they were part of every biography on Lyndon Johnson, which portrayed him as sort of a Horatio Alger figure, you know, popular, charismatic, who rose to power.