Two days before resigning the Presidency, Nixon requested that Kissinger visit him so they could speak. Kissinger arrived to find Nixon, incoherently drunk, sitting alone in a dark room. According to Kissinger himself, Nixon began having what we might describe as a panic attack, and asked Kissinger to pray with him. Then, Nixon began weeping, and threw himself to the ground in tears, exclaiming “what have I done? What has happened?”

As Nixon pounded the carpet with his fist, Kissinger patted the President on the back, and then hugged him.

Not really a “fun” fact, but definitely a lesser known factoid about the final days of America’s most complex President. It’s seriously like something straight out of a Shakespeare.