It is a secret that could have stopped him becoming president of the United States.
Richard Nixon was secretly seeing a psychiatrist during the height of his political career, a new book has claimed.
The former US president began seeing Dr Arnold Hutschnecker in 1952 with a string of complaints he thought were all in his mind, like back and neck pain and insomnia.
The book claims that Nixon continued seeing the doctor for at least a decade including during the fateful 1960 election which he lost to John F Kennedy.
Author David Robb also reveals that in a foreshadowing of Watergate Nixon once hired a private eye to look into Kennedy’s health.
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