Healing Richard Nixon

by Lungren, John C., M.D.; Perlstein, Rick

• ISBN13: 9780813122748
• ISBN10: 0813122740
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-25
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky

Summary

" With an introduction by Rick Perlstein Richard M. Nixon remains an enigma even thirty years after his resignation. Of the many portraits of this complex man, none have been more intimate or revealing than this memoir from his personal physician, friend, and confidante of more than forty years, John C. Lungren, M.D. Dr. Lungren, with his son and co-author John C. Lungren Jr., portrays Nixon as a paradoxical man -- intense, compassionate, guarded, intelligent, resilient, deeply religious, enormously successful but ultimately tragic. Lungren describes his battle to restore the president's health after his resignation and reveals previously unknown details about Nixon's two intensive hospitalizations, his near fatal vascular collapse, and his depression. Lungren experienced firsthand Nixon's thoughts and feelings during the public scrutiny of federal prosecution for his role in the Watergate break-in. Accused of shielding his friend, Lungren himself came under fire; his private office was even burgled in an apparent attempt to copy Nixon's private medical records. Using previously unpublished sources, original correspondence, and private photographs, Healing Richard Nixon places Nixon in a new light. No future research or conclusions about Nixon -- the man or the president -- will be complete without consulting this fascinating memoir.

Author Biography

The late John C. Lungren, M.D., became Richard Nixon's personal physician in 1952 John C. Lungren Jr. is a former reporter for Knight-Ridder Rick Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Prefaces by John C. Lungren Jr. and John C. Lungren, M.D.	xvii
Acknowledgments	xxv
1. The Cease of Majesty	1	(8)
2. From Pharaohs to Phlebitis	9	(12)
3. Dread Unconcealed	21	(8)
4. The Plot Thickens	29	(12)
5. On the Campaign Trail I	41	(20)
6. On the Campaign Trail II	61	(14)
7. The Haldeman Enigma	75	(8)
8. Defeating Death	83	(10)
9. Judge Sirica's Medical Panel	93	(20)
10. Nixon, Sinatra, Dreyfus	113	(6)
11. Habeas Corpus: Nixon on Watergate and Vietnam	119	(8)
12. Nixon and the Jews	127	(4)
13. Nixon and Kissinger	131	(6)
14. Regimen for Recovery	137	(8)
15. Dreadful Summoners	145	(6)
16. Nixon in China	151	(8)
17. Pat Nixon and The Final Days	159	(8)
18. New Glory	167	(16)
Appendix	183	(8)
Notes	191	(6)
Bibliography	197	(6)
Index	203