[Nonstatist]

I read the first two volumes. Was he more of a meglo than Nixon? Nixon always had to deal with a Dem Congress, yet he "did his own thing" in Cambodia, for example. Johnson had his (many) demons, but so did Nixon.

[Torie]

No, he was totally supine to some as he curried favor (starting in college when the story begins), and haughty to others. This exaggerated aspect of his personality is novelistic.