The speaker says Lyndon Johnson showed little evidence of a coherent political ideology through most of his career and pursued power ruthlessly, adopting whatever course was most expedient at the time.

“Lyndon Johnson's story, on the other hand, is kind of the opposite. Through most of his career, there's little evidence that he had a coherent political ideology. He was a ruthless power seeker who embraced whatever happened to be the most expedient thing to do at that time.”