the seduction to watch someone self-destruct was a great lesson in life as to -- I'd never want to do that. I would never have any... Larry King: Did he ever try to stop? Linda Thompson: He did a few times. Larry King: Did he ever go anywhere to get help? Linda Thompson: Yes. We went to the Baptist Hospital together, and there were a couple of doctors there who actually intervened and they actually helped him tremendously, helped him to withdraw from some of the more addictive drugs. I stayed in the hospital with him. I had a hospital bed right next to him. He was in the hospital twice when I was with him. Larry King: Under different names? Linda Thompson: No. He was under his own name. He got calls from Frank Sinatra and President Nixon . He would have me go to the phone and say, 'is this really President Nixon?' Is this really Frank Sinatra? How do I know it's really you? Because he doesn't want to talk unless it's really you. Then when we called President Nixon back at the White House and I said, Elvis Presley is calling, they said, ' how do we really know it's really Elvis Presley?' So we had some interesting moments. But he insisted that I have a hospital bed right next to him, and would raise it and lower it as he did his. Larry King: What was life like with someone -- how many cars did