According to his contemporaries, Richard Nixon was not a man possessed of great coordination or mechanical skill. Even before heavy alcoholic use and abuse led to a deterioration over time, Nixon’s staff and aides recalled numerous incidents in which the President required assistance with simple mechanical tasks.
Perhaps the most famous of these was during his time in the Oval Office, when a frustrated Nixon called his aide, Stephen B Bull, into his office.
As Bull reported to Woodward and Bernstein (the reporters who broke Watergate), the President had unsuccessfully tried to open a bottle of allergy medication. This bottle had a childproof cap, the type which says “press down and turn”, and reportedly had teeth marks on it where the Presidenr had tried to chew it open.
Bull also recalled being called in on multiple occasions to open cardboard boxes for the President.
TheMidnightBear on
While armchair psychologists are always reaching, i suspect Nixon was on the spectrum, even if high-functioning.
The-Muncible on
Everything I hear about him just makes me think his character in Futurama is spot on
Muscalp on
Ngl child proof caps turn me into back into a Denisovan pretty regularly
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According to his contemporaries, Richard Nixon was not a man possessed of great coordination or mechanical skill. Even before heavy alcoholic use and abuse led to a deterioration over time, Nixon’s staff and aides recalled numerous incidents in which the President required assistance with simple mechanical tasks.
Perhaps the most famous of these was during his time in the Oval Office, when a frustrated Nixon called his aide, Stephen B Bull, into his office.
As Bull reported to Woodward and Bernstein (the reporters who broke Watergate), the President had unsuccessfully tried to open a bottle of allergy medication. This bottle had a childproof cap, the type which says “press down and turn”, and reportedly had teeth marks on it where the Presidenr had tried to chew it open.
Bull also recalled being called in on multiple occasions to open cardboard boxes for the President.
While armchair psychologists are always reaching, i suspect Nixon was on the spectrum, even if high-functioning.
Everything I hear about him just makes me think his character in Futurama is spot on
Ngl child proof caps turn me into back into a Denisovan pretty regularly