New Nixon Biography - A Paranoid Drunk

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Excerpt from Biography:
Richard Milhous Nixon was an improbable president. He didn't particularly like people. He lacked charm or humor or joy. Socially awkward and an introvert, he had few friends and was virtually incapable of small talk. He didn't care to, in his words, "press the flesh." He was also one of our most complex presidents: insecure, self-pitying, vindictive, suspicious — even literally paranoid — and filled with long-nursed anger and resentments, which burst forth from time to time. He never seemed the happy warrior.