johnson and richard milhouse nixon.ut it is very clear in retrospect that nearly all the decisions that were made were informed in some way by domestic political considerations, from harry truman to dwight eisenhower to john f. kennedy to nixon to ford. that is an interesting thing to understand, in a situation in which you feel that on the other side of the world you've got certain military exigencies, a good deal of what is happening is being determined by domestic political considerations, which is not always the best way to run a war. mark: lynn, did you come away with impressions of these commanders in chief different from the one you had painted? lynn: no doubt, yeah. as ken was saying, it is having a multidimensional sense of them, too, because it is very easy to demonize or lionize these figures as larger than life, not real people, and listening to their audio, especially for johnson index and, you begin to feel a little bit more of a sense of them as a human being. i have read a lot and seen documentaries on t