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Many White House observers, such as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, portray Nixon in this final period as a man verging on suicide or nervous breakdown, at times incapable of dealing with potential threats to national security. Episodes of Richard Nixon, jabbering incoherently, or talking to paintings of past presidents at night in the White House have been widely reported. On the basis of his own first-hand observations, Price says he rejects these reports of Nixon as "being bonkers" during the final weeks of his presidency. Because of Nixon's unique ability to "departmentalize and compartmentalize" issues and ideas...
...left at home, meets Francois (Yves Beneyton), a Parisian student, and falls in love with him. Together, they go back to Paris and rent an apartment. Finding Pomme unable to meet his intellectual demands, Francois soon becomes bored with her, and they ultimately break up. Pomme suffers a nervous breakdown and enters a sanitarium...
...causes of agoraphobia. A few doctors think it may stem from hormonal imbalances or overuse of stimulants, even coffee, but most experts are sure the affliction is a psychic one. Freudians consider it a neurotic symptom. Many psychologists see it simply as learned behavior: a patient has an initial breakdown so traumatic that it leaves him in a constant state of anxiety over a possible recurrence, thus producing the phobia...
Bate's Johnson is not without its faults. His overreliance on Freud can become tiresome, and he tends to belabor his evidence. But his commentaries on Johnson's mind are unfailingly ingenious. The severe breakdown Johnson suffered in his 50s, Bate argues, was provoked by "the habit of leaping ahead in imagination into the future and forestalling disappointment"; he had renounced hope, the one virtue he believed essential to life. This sort of intuitive speculation, intimate but never condescending, recalls Johnson's own method in Lives of the Poets. No other biographer of Johnson has meditated...
They headed back for Cambridge at 3:15, only six hours after the breakdown...