9. President Lyndon B. Johnson – ESTP
ESTP (Extravert, Sensing, Thinking, Perceiving) is described by some as the most likely MBTI to be found in a psychopath. Interestingly, at least four US Presidents (some sites claim more) have been described as exhibiting the personality traits of an ESTP. The first is James Buchanan, who served one term as President just before the Civil War. He sat in the White House when the first states seceded from the Union in 1860-61. He routinely ranks near the bottom of lists grading the American Presidents, and he is chiefly remembered as the only US President to never have married. The other three Presidents said to have had ESTP personalities are considerably more modern, the first being Lyndon Johnson. Johnson ascended to the Presidency and later won it outright in one of the largest landslides in American history.
Johnson is remembered for his civil rights legislation, a bill initiated by his predecessor, and for his expansion of American troops in Southeast Asia. He justified that expansion following a now disputed incident in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, leading the United States into a quagmire which well outlived his Presidency. Interestingly, George W. Bush has been identified as an ESTP type. As President, Bush led the nation into two wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq, the former eventually becoming the longest in American history. To be fair, not all sites purporting to judge such things lists either LBJ or Bush as ESTP types, and as far as is known, neither President took the test. At least they never published the results if they did. The last former President assigned the ESTP type is too recent to discuss within the confines of this article.
