about even decades later, a movie that still entertains us but gives us a sort of cultural vocabulary for talking about what otherwise might be kind of hard to imagine threats that might some day arise around a u.s. presidency. in "night of camp david," the book, not a movie, not nearly as well-known, the serious problem that befalls the presidency and the country in that book is that the president goes nuts. an otherwise unremarkable senator from the president's own party figures out the president is going nuts because the president repeatedly invites him up to camp david for late night chats at camp david and in those chats the president turns out all the lights and sits in the dark and rants and raves and tells the senator all his destructive secret paranoid fantasies and tells the senator his rather insane plans for the country and the world, some of which seem like they might be