In Sickness and in Power: Illnesses in Heads of Government During the Last 100 YearsBloomsbury Academic, 30 may 2008 - 420 páginas The course of modern world history has been critically shaped by the physical and mental illnesses of heads of state, sometimes in the public eye but usually in secrecy. Democratic politicians as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Churchill, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Pompidou, Mitterrand, Blair, George W. Bush, Chirac, and Sharon all lied about their health. Between 1906 and 2008 seven Presidents are judged to have been mentally ill while in office: Theodore Roosevelt (bipolar disorder), Taft (breathing-related sleep disorder), Wilson (major depressive disorder), Coolidge (major depressive disorder), Hoover (major depressive disorder), Johnson (bipolar disorder), and Nixon (alcohol abuse). Many despots-such as Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Robert Mugabe-have been branded by the press and public opinion as suffering mental illnesses. Lord Owen argues neither Hitler nor Stalin were mad in any sense the medical profession recognizes (whereas Mussolini and Mao had depression, possibly bipolar disorder). |
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... election in correspondence with Eisenhower . * But as October went on neither Macmillan nor Eden ever seemed to weigh the effect on Eisenhower of invading Egypt on the eve of his presidential election . This is very strange since , as ...
... election . In October 1959 he said , implausibly , that if the Eisenhower administration had given the fiery young rebel a warmer welcome in his hour of triumph , especially on his trip to the United States , he might not have gone over ...
... election of their own . Eisenhower , Reagan and Clinton all served eight years , with electorates appearing happy for them to stay longer . As popular Presidents at the end of their eight years , they might well have been able , had it ...
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