I agree. Very entertaining, but clearly fiction. And, it seems, lifted from the horrid film "Where The Buffalo Roam," based somewhat on Hunter Thompson's "Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72." There is a scene, supposedly written by HST himself, where Thompson (Bill Murray) is in a bathroom with Nixon. Thompson lightly grills Dick while washing his sneakers in the sink (then banging them on the porcelain edge, and sticking them on the hot-air hand dryers). The peak comes when Thompson asks Dick "But what about the doomed, Mr. President? What about the doomed?" And Dick, trying to take a piss (and struggling), replies, "Fuck the doomed."
"Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail" is filled with stories of HST doing drugs with various political and media celebs, including his supposed splitting a tab of black acid with John Chancellor.
DP