ABSTRACT
Before the post-pardon illness slowed him down, Richard Nixon was a man who insisted he had never had a headache in his life. He was proud of never having missed a day’s work due to illness in his first term, despite some colds and sore throats that might have caused other Presidents to curtail their schedules, and would frequently tell Bob Haldeman to pass this on to several of us in a wistful attempt to construct a counter-mythology.
