Roger Stone, the sharp-dressed, right-wing political operative who is no fan of any Democrat, has it in for Lyndon Johnson. Mr. Stone says the architect of the War on Poverty and the Great Society is better remembered as the Great Conspirator and accuses him of responsibility for nine murders, including the greatest crime of the 20th century, the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
“He was vicious, crude, vindictive, corrupt, abusive, unbalanced, evil—all those things,” said Mr. Stone, who worked on the Nixon, Reagan and George H.W. Bush presidential campaigns, helped shut down the 2000 Florida recount and complained to the F.B.I. that Eliot Spitzer hired hookers, well in advance of the ex-governor’s resignation.
Mr. Stone has a new book out about the assassination called The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ. He hopes it will break through the “resistance of the mainstream media” to alternative theories of the assassination. “My uphill fight is to get some coverage,” he said.