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presidential health

SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
10/10/2020

Trump’s Illness, like Woodrow Wilson’s Stroke, Could be Turning Point in History

by Christopher McKnight Nichols

Presidential illness and disability have historically functioned as a turning point from which presidents never fully recover even if their bodies and minds do.

5/2/18

How Many Presidents Have Lied About Their Medical History?

by Rick Shenkman

Once again a president has been caught misleading the public about their health. In this Donald Trump is not unique.

Was JFK the Victim of an Undiagnosed Disease Common to the Irish?

by Peter H.R. Green, MD

Did Kennedy have celiac disease?

Kennedy: Disease, History and Secrecy

by Barron Lerner

Today, immediate revelations of illness are the norm among politicians.

A Kennedy Biographer Assesses the Dallek Disclosures

by Laurence Leamer

Kennedy had his own heroic qualities in his refusal to live life as a semi-invalid.