presidential health

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

  by Peter H.R. Green, MD

  Did Kennedy have celiac disease?

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• Kennedy: Disease, History and Secrecy

  by Barron Lerner

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

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• 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.