A popular sophomore-level exercise in quantum mechanics, multiply (re)appearing in physics journals. The essence of the message is that the one-dimensional Dirac equation (i.e., the two-component first-order system) is reducible to a single Schroedinger-like ordinary differential equation of the second order. The latter linear eigenvalue problem comprises a confluent hypergeometric family of the well known special cases which are solvable in terms of Laguerre polynomials. MR2786841 Hamzavi, M.; Rajabi, A. A.; Hassanabadi, H. Exactly complete solutions of the Dirac equation with pseudoharmonic potential including linear plus Coulomb-like tensor potential. Internat. J. Modern Phys. A 26 (2011), no. 7-8, 1363--1374. 81Qxx