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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... heart attack on the flight back to Moscow . Publicly it may have been preferable for the rumours of drunkenness to persist rather than knowledge of a heart attack be known . Yeltsin had in fact suffered five heart attacks while in ...
... heart problems , * which started in October 2003 , may have returned at the time of his visit that summer with his wife to the Sardinian home of the Italian Prime Minister , Silvio Berlusconi , but nothing was substantiated . A family ...
... heart scare last October ' , when Clinton arrived . She said : 127 I told him who I was and asked if he had heard if the Prime Minister had had a heart scare . He was very relaxed about it and said , yes , he had and indeed had spoken ...
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