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Miles Archer

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Mon Jun 8, 2026, 07:16 AM 19 hrs ago

Ah, the GOOD OLD DAYS, when "CRAZY" meant Nixon talking to portraits on the WH walls of past presidents [View all]

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The famous claim that an emotionally distraught Richard Nixon wandered the White House hallways at night talking to portraits of past presidents stems from the 1976 book The Final Days by journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.The OriginAccording to the book, during the height of the Watergate scandal in 1974, Nixon was deeply distressed and spent late-night hours walking the halls of the White House residence. Woodward and Bernstein reported that Nixon paused in front of the oil portraits of dead presidents and engaged in hushed, broken conversations with them.

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