Eli Sagan Chesen, M.D. (born 1944) is a U.S. psychiatrist, author and artist. Chesen grew up in Sioux City, IA, and has lived his life crisscrossing vocational and avocational boundaries. His diverse life experience has included his having practiced medicine and having plotted out, for David Frost, the interview strategy for the original Nixon/Frost Interviews. Psychiatry Chesen has practiced medicine for 40 years, specializing in pharmacological psychiatry. He currently practices psychiatry in Lincoln, Nebraska. Art Chesen started painting 50 years ago, when he was 15. His knowledge of chemistry, physiology and physics infiltrate his creative activities. Chesen's art work is schematic, figurative, deconstructive, technological, modernist and abstract. He sometimes attaches electronic or hardware objects, such as water faucets, to his oils as with "Duchamp Meets Home Depot", an homage to Marcel Duchamp’s sea changing work with plumbing art. He won the first of two juried art competitions, in 1971, for his abstract oil, "Hi Fi 1964". In some of his most recent work, Chesen has taken 1953 Buick automobile hoods and 'deconstructed' them into stunning pieces of original sculpture. Author Chesen has authored several books including: Religion May Be Hazardous to Your Health (1972), President Nixon’s Psychiatric Profile (1973), and The Fitness Compulsion (1988). His book Religion May Be Hazardous to Your Health was serialized by the New York Times Sunday Magazine. Currently he is a contributing author to Prairie Fire magazine, a monthly regional journal of public policy and the arts, based in Lincoln, Nebraska. Eli Chesen has been serialized in The New York Times Sunday Magazine and has been written up in Esquire, Newsweek and Le Monde. Chesen's Nixon book was a cover story in Parade Magazine in 1975. He has been featured on Donahue, The CBS Evening News, Regis, and ABC's Good Morning America. Quoting John Dean, III, former counsel to President Nixon and primary mover in the "Watergate" scandal: “Importantly, Eli Chesen, with whom I have discussed Nixon over many years because of his 1974 book, President Nixon's Psychiatric Profile, had a number of off-the-record conversations with Reston Jr., which appear to me to have provided David Frost with a key to pressing Nixon to actually provide something of value during the interviews. I was curious about Eli's take on the Frost/Nixon film. Moreover, knowing of Eli's extensive off-the-record dealings with Reston, I was interested in his feelings about Reston's emerging as a central character in