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Johnson was self-pitying and prone to the blackest paranoia.
To be precise, the Nixon of Watergate was Richard III, the self-pitying monster.
They could be Jimmy Stewart at the end of It's a Wonderful Life , or politicians preparing to run for president, or even, perhaps, the fantasy projections of self-pitying network executives who wish they could chuck the lunches at the Dome and the whole rat race and just go home again.
Written by a self-pitying autodidact for consumption by self-pitying autodidacts, A Fan's Notes divides the world into two camps: tortured, bewildered misfits (Exleys) and serene, fair-haired conformists (Giffords).
She defied everyone she knew, including her own press secretary, to go on television for a notorious 1995 interview in which she came off as wildly self-pitying and un-self-aware.