At the same time, he would oblige aides to take dictation standing in the door of his office bathroom while he went about emptying his bowels, as if in some alpha-male ritual assertion of his primacy. He early became fabled for a Rabelaisian earthiness, urinating in the parking lot of the House Office Building as the urge took him if a colleague came into a Capitol bathroom as he was finishing at the urinal there, he would sometimes swing around still holding his member, which he liked to call “Jumbo,” hooting once, “Have you ever seen anything as big as this?,” and shaking it in almost a brandishing manner as he began discoursing about some pending legislation.
Reviewing a biography of Johnson in the New York Review of Books, historian Marshall Frady noted: Lyndon Johnson was always eager to let those around him know that he had an unusually large penis.
