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Author Lungren, John C. M. D

Title Healing Richard Nixon : a doctor's memoir / John C. Lundgren and John C. Lundgren, Jr. ; with a foreword by Rick Perlstein
Published Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (258 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface by John C. Lungren Jr; Preface by John C. Lungren, M.D; Acknowledgments; 1. The Cease of Majesty; 2. From Pharaohs to Phlebitis; 3. Dread Unconcealed; 4. The Plot Thickens; 5. On the Campaign Trail I; 6. On the Campaign Trail II; 7. The Haldeman Enigma; 8. Defeating Death; 9. Judge Sirica's Medical Panel; 10. Nixon, Sinatra, Dreyfus; 11. Habeas Corpus:Nixon on Watergate and Vietnam; 12. Nixon and the Jews; 13. Nixon and Kissinger; 14. Regimen for Recovery; 15. Dreadful Summoners; 16. Nixon in China
17. Pat Nixon and The Final Days18. New Glory; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary 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 previo
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Subject Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 -- Health
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
Lungren, John C., 1916-2000.
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 -- Friends and associates
SUBJECT Lungren, John C., 1916-2000 fast
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 fast
Subject Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Physicians -- United States -- Biography
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Presidents & Heads of State.
Friendship
Health
Physicians
Presidents
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Lungren, John C., Jr.
ISBN 9780813159539
0813159539