Since you asked:
Freud :
He was named after his father's father and given the Hebrew name Shlomo.
jewishmag.com
Nixon on pills, guns, and martinis :
"You fellows in your business," Nixon told the temporarily retired general, "you have a way of handling problems like this. Somebody leaves a pistol in the drawer. I don't have a pistol." It was, suggest the authors, "as if he were half asking to be given one." After that incident, Haig passed orders that Nixon not be allowed any pills, fearing he might take an overdose.
Nixon's two sons-in-law, Edward Cox and David Eisenhower, also worried that the President might attempt suicide. Seeking outside help, Cox telephoned Michigan Senator Robert Griffin. He reported that Nixon had been "walking the halls" of the White House late at night, "talking to pictures of former Presidents." The President, warned Cox, might be in a mood to kill himself. David also told friends that he thought the President might "go bananas" and seemed convinced that he "would never leave the White House alive."
The deterioration showed in Nixon's drinking habits. He would turn up at the office at noon with eyes already so glazed that Treasury Secretary William Simon was reminded of a "windup doll." Nixon let himself ramble incoherently at private dinners. At a pre-Christmas dinner in 1973 with a few intimates, including Political Adviser Bryce Harlow and Senator Barry Goldwater, he was unable to express himself. "Bryce, explain what I'm saying to Barry," he pleaded several times. Next day Goldwater called Harlow, asking, "Is the President off his rocker?" Replied Harlow, "No. He was drunk."
time.com
My AGE :
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