Saturday, August 04, 2007

In a surprise move to save his reputation, John Roberts resigns from the Supreme Court...


Associated Press/Joel Page Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, left, rides out to his vacation home in Port Clyde, Maine, shortly after leaving the hospital Tuesday.
... to become Giuliani's Attorney General. The decision was made when Roberts realized the secrecy of his seizure disorder would result in analogies to Richard Nixon's Dilantin dependency (click here) .
...According to the book, Mr Nixon consulted a psychotherapist, Dr Jack Dreyfus, in 1970 after becoming depressed over the hostile public reaction to the bombing of Cambodia.

Nixon aide John Taylor Dr Dreyfus, an enthusiastic user and promoter of the drug Dilantin, told The New York Times that he gave Mr Nixon a bottle of 1,000 capsules of the drug "when his mood wasn't too good", and later gave him a further 1,000....