🚀 go-pugleaf

Peter H. Proctor <drp@drproctor.com> wrote in message news:<durgov0rirmjcjoq7lu03giosfrfdpu46r@4ax.com>...
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 20:10:09 GMT, KStahl <ktsahl@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >"Peter H. Proctor" wrote:
> >> 
> >> "WHEN SUPREME COURT JUSTICES REFUSE TO RETIRE:"....  JOHN DEAN
> >> 
> >> http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20010720.html
> >> 
> >> "Justices' mental problems are all too easily hidden. While on the
> >> bench, Justice Frank Murphy, who served from 1940-49, had a serious
> >> drug problem (Demerol addiction), and was seeing a psychoanalyst. One
> >> biographer reports that at one point, he was illegally purchasing
> >> drugs twice a day......
>  
> >> "Long before Associate Justice William Rehnquist was nominated to be
> >> chief justice, he had a serious health issue that may have impaired
> >> his decisionmaking. For nine years, from 1972-81, the Capitol
> >> physician, Freeman H. Cary, had prescribed a powerful hypnotic
> >> medication, Placidyl, because of Rehnquist's chronic lower back pain.... snip....
>  
> >Excellent history lesson. I enjoy learning things like that. I had never
> >heard about this before. Do you have any other good tidbits along the
> >same lines?
> 
>       This is just supreme court justices...   Other stuff that comes
> to mind:  Both the Pres and VP have DUI busts and the Pres essentially
> admits that he is a recovering alcoholic...  To his credit,  BTW,  for
> many it is not easy.    The Pres also does not deny previous cocaine
> use.     And then there is the new Republican governor of
> "Kalliphonia" ,  who seems to have been rather intemperate in his
> youth<G>...

Yeah - it's a little difficult for Arnold to deny he ever inhaled -
since he's on film smoking a joint...

Guido