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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... meeting Kennedy raged that Khrushchev had treated him like a little boy and one of his own note takers at the meeting , Charles Bohlen , said of his President : ' He's a little bit out of his depth , isn't he.'53 George Kennan , one of ...
... meeting in Key West to appoint Ormsby - Gore as the British ambassador to Washington , who became a great success . Later , as Lord Harlech , he recalled in his oral history meeting Kennedy in London , who was ' obviously in great pain ...
... meeting in Paris with President Slobodan Milošević . In domestic political terms it was not easy for Mitterrand to invite the Serbian leader to Paris , for the meeting coincided with a critical internal French debate on policy towards ...
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