Presidential health and the public's need to know.

摘要

This political scenario is not drawn from the 2008 presidential election currently occupying the minds of many Americans. It occurred 53 years ago, shortly after President Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1955 myocardial infarction and before he announced his ultimately successful candidacy for reelection. At the time, the details of that near fatal event, as well as Eisenhower's 1956 intestinal obstruction and a mild stroke with transient motor aphasia in 1957, were shrouded in secrecy. Throughout his second term, Eisenhower's delicate health was a constant preoccupation.