IVing to the last drop: 'we've got this President now..."

[Mark Kohut]

Nixon. P's hatred of him--see GR--is put right here again, semi-autobigraphically?   Which, again, means to me that most of 
Doc's obs and remarks are 'reliable' in the narrator sense
AND some kind of echo of an attitude of his creator's?

Or, do you believe, as I just read today by draughtsman-artist Ad Reinhart:
Art is art and everything else is everything else?