"As a former White House physician, I believe this probing investigation of presidential health (and the possibility for White House cover-ups of illness and incapacity), as well as the blatant disregard from the 25th Amendment's provisions for orderly transfer of power, will furnish Washington with powerful medical dramas.
""Hidden Illness in the White House" clearly sets forth the danger of an incapacitated president, with the resulting chances for nuclear disaster, and will help make the health of the president as much a public issues as competence and performance in office."--Rear Admiral William M. Lukash, M.D., former White House physician, Medical Corps, USN (Ret.)

Kenneth R. Crispell and Carlos Gomez

Foreword / Birch Bayh vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
1. Illness and History: An Overview 1
2. Woodrow Wilson: Strokes, Versailles, and the Pathology of Politics 13
3. Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Diagnosis of an "Unexpected" Death 75
4. Diplomacy and Failing Health: Roosevelt and the Final Decline 121
5. John F. Kennedy: "I'm the Healthiest Candidate" 160
6. The Twenty-fifth Amendment and the Decisions of History 203
Notes 243
Index 263