Single page TLS, 6.25" x 9.25" on Clinton's personal letterhead with the embossed gilt eagle seal. Dated "May 9, 2002", and signed by him as "Bill". Accompanied by the free frank envelope, 6.5" x 4.75". Near fine with light creasing to letter. Envelope torn at top and flap.
Bill Clinton writes a letter to Jack Dreytus, the "Lion of Wall Street", regarding the drug Phenytoin (Dilantia). Dreyfus was perhaps best known for his mark on Wall Street, and the Investment firm which he founded. However after selling the fund during the early 1970s, Dreyfus became a major proponent of phenytoin as a means to control nervousness and depression when he received a prescription for Dilantin in 1966. Dreyfus dedicated his time, connections and more than $60 million of his money to championing - despite doubts among many medical experts - a single drug, in which he has no financial interest.
Of intrigue, Clinton's letter suggests that Jack Dreyfus was enlightening him on the drug, phenytoin. Perhaps the most bizarre aspect of this letter is that Dreyfus also was known to have enlightened President Nixon to the same drug and even to have helped Nixon in accessing phenytoin during his years as President.
phenytoin.
In the book, "The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon" (Viking, 2000), the author, Anthony Summers, writes that Mr. Dreyfus told him that he had given large quantities of Dilantin to President Nixon on two occasions to improve his "moods." Two former Nixon aides have disputed that account, saying they saw no evidence that Mr. Nixon used the dnig while in office. But in a recent intei-view in his New York office, Mr. Dreyfus not only elaborated on the encounters but claimed that the former president sought more Dilantin from him nine years after he left the White House.
Dreyfus was a firm believer in Dilantin as a wonder drug and has spent his years post Wall Street proselytizing, for the di-ug. A revealing letter with a deeper meaning than the few words placed on the page.
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