As to drug use, the book reports that Jack Dreyfus, eccentric founder of the Dreyfus Investment Fund and a longtime Nixon pal and financial supporter, gave Nixon 1,000 capsules of Dilantin in 1968 as part of his personal promotion of the drug. Dreyfus has confirmed this, saying he did so when Nixon's "mood wasn't so good." He said he later provided Nixon with another 1,000 capsules.
Introduced in the 1930s, Dilantin is a mood-altering, anti-convulsive drug most often used to control epileptic seizures. The book cites no direct evidence that Nixon ever used the pills.
Nixon loved martinis, another drug. He would drink a pitcher and listen to the soundtrack of Victory at Sea on a portable Hi-Fi.
He also walked through the white house, drunk, with Henry Kissinger, talking to the portraits of past Presidents, asking Andy Jackson about his own travails as President - "they mocked your wife, Andy, how did you endure it?" Then he asked Kissinger to knee and pray for guidance, god only knows who they were praying to.
Nixon loved martinis, another drug. He would drink a pitcher and listen to the soundtrack of Victory at Sea on a portable Hi-Fi.
He also walked through the white house, drunk, with Henry Kissinger, talking to the portraits of past Presidents, asking Andy Jackson about his own travails as President - "they mocked your wife, Andy, how did you endure it?" Then he asked Kissinger to knee and pray for guidance, god only knows who they were praying to.
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