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Those closest to Johnson see him with what Sidey describes as " split vision." They admit that "ninety percent of what he wants is right but ninety percent of the way he does it is wrong." Yet his friends choose to ignore his methods and concentrate on his goals. Sidey himself would like to like Lyndon Johnson, but he cannot quite bring himself to do so. Neither can a lot of other Americans. Yet most would probably agree with Sidey's final, sympathetic assessment—that Lyndon Johnson, in taking himself out of the running for a second term, "served himself and his country well."