Reminds me of the old days, he said, propping his feet on the porch rail and spitting on the dog. Was running the Waldenbooks at 17th and Penn, across from the Old Executive Office Building. Robert Dallek’s biography of LBJ was out, and so was Joseph “I have since morphed into the devil” Califano’s. We were having Califano for a book party and had big displays of both titles. We got used to referring to “Joseph Califano’s Johnson” and “Robert Dallek’s Johnson.” Of course, we recognized, “The one they like best is Robert Caro’s Johnson, because it’s nasty.”