LYNDON IN THE MORNING

LEGENDS Eat your heart out, Robert Caro. If Madeleine Brown, now 65, raises the money to publish her 300-page manuscript, Texas in the Morning, My Secret Life With LBJ, we will no longer have to lie awake wondering about Lyndon Johnson’s bedroom technique.

Brown, who says she trysted with Lyndon Johnson off and on from 1948 through 1969, writes that he was ’”as thrilling in bed as he was in the public forum of politics.”

Depending on your politics, that may be faint praise. And nobody in the LBJ inner circle has ever admitted any romantic liaison between the president and the author, whose manuscript is peppered with erotic oddments about Johnson. After a night of lovemaking, she writes, he liked to stand naked at the window and bellow,”God, I love Texas in the morning!”

The tough-as-rawhide LBJ could be a surprisingly tender lover, according to Brown. Of one alleged rendezvous at Austin’s Driskill Hotel, she writes: “Lyndon took my chin in his hand and looked into my eyes. 1 wanted him to kiss me… and press me back into the satin pillows and hold me tight. . .”

In 1987, Brown says, she broke her longstanding promise to Johnson to “see nothing, hear nothing, and say nothing” because of her failing health and the cancer that is killing her son, STEVEN, 39, who she maintains is LBJ’s child. Soon after hearing this confession, Steven filed a $10.5 million suit against Lady Bird Johnson for conspiring to deny him his “legal heirship.”

Now conies the latest wrinkle in the suit. Since Brown’s Harle-qumated prose apparently failed to ignite the publishing world, she has decided to publish the book herself-if she can raise the $120,000 she says she needs for the project.

To raise it. two big-time Dallas securities executives have been enlisted to corral some investors. Preferring anonymity, the older of the two says, “In the book, when Mrs. Brown’s maid saw her with LBJ, he told her to tell the maid goodbye, Then she disappeared and was never seen again. 1 may be ready for On Golden Pond. but not with my feet in cement.”