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Reminded of Ross Perot talking about Bill Clinton and cocaine behavior;
http://www.uwsa.com/rossonwolfblitzer.html

BLITZER: All right, the other allegation you made against the president is that he may be on drug use, may have used cocaine and that could explain his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. But on what basis do you make those kinds of accusations?

PEROT: Well, you like to take my speeches out of context. And the whole context, I said his brain didn’t work. And I said, let’s assume it all works normally. Then sometime, he’s taken something that causes him to behave erratically, but that...

BLITZER: But that’s your assumption, right?

PEROT: May I finish?

BLITZER: That’s your assumption.

PEROT: May I finish?

BLITZER: Yes. Go ahead.

PEROT: That’s all it ever was. No, no there’s more than an assumption here. He’s admitted to former drug use in the past. Would you agree with me there?

BLITZER: He admitted to not inhaling marijuana, but he didn’t admit to cocaine.

PEROT: Well, but that’s Clinton. That’s Clinton. That’s Clinton. Now then, all over Arkansas they’re just covered up with stories about his problems with cocaine and what have you in the Mena (ph) airport and you name it. I have no way of knowing the details on that, but if every part of his brain is working correctly then he wouldn’t be doing these out-of-control things that just devastate his family, lower the morality of the country, cause the American people to lose faith in their government. These are terrible things to be doing.

Now a guy could get terribly drunk and maybe go a little crazy, but having studied drug use a lot because I was chairman of a war on drugs in Texas, spent a lot of time with people who use cocaine, his behavior parallels a person’s behavior when they’re up on cocaine. But it becomes very erratic. If he didn’t use it..Now, let me finish once. I said, all he has to do is expose his medical records. He’s very secretive about his medical records. Lay them on the table and see if there’s any background of drug use, any background of having been in drug treatment, and then go under oath and say to the American people, “I have never used drugs since I’ve been in public life.”

BLITZER: But, but, the point...

PEROT: And do it in an environment where he’s under oath and he’ll have to do 20 years time.

BLITZER: But the point is that you don’t have any hard evidence that he’s used cocaine, these are just your suppositions based on...

PEROT: I’m saying, in talking to a lot of doctors and having had a lot of experience and a lot of knowledge about how the human brain works. If you assume that his brain all works fine...well, we know it doesn’t from time to time. Then something disrupts the circuits. They’re called neurons. Something disrupts it and it doesn’t work for a while. Now that would have to be something like drug use.

BLITZER: But, but, Mr. Perot, with all due respect, how would you feel if reporters started reporting rumors about you without getting hard facts?

PEROT: Well, excuse me, excuse me. You all do that all the time....