Johnson was personally and ideologically close to the rebels. His district, in northwest Louisiana, votes lopsidedly Republican, and his voting record was as far to the right as that of anyone in the G.O.P.
Unlike other Republican hard-liners, he cultivated a mild and bookish persona. He wore horn-rimmed glasses, called himself 'a nerd constitutional-law guy,' and garlanded his speeches with quotes from Chesterton and Tocqueville.
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