LBJ did use the N* word in private on occasion (and in private he didn't say 'neegrah'):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1rIDmDWSms



http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/Lyndon_Baines_Johnson.htm... but he also supported various civil rights bills & actions when was possible to do so. He understood very well that he MUST appear to be with the Southern senators in spirit, and then present civil rights bills as inevitable.
We may never know exactly what he believed & "wished", but he knew what the country needed/wanted. He certainly KNEW that various minorities had been mistreated for many years, and that we could not get away with that forever.

I have heard tapes of him calling some Southern senator saying approximately: "that n***** bill is coming up soon, and I need your
vote.."

Like most crucial men in history, he was a mixed bag,.....