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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... resolutions or to pass another resolution specifically endorsing military action . For the United States , and to a slightly lesser extent for the UK , there was a commitment only to meet in order to consider the situation and the need ...
... resolution would provide an ' insurance policy'.61 Why , then , did Blair want this insurance policy ? Partly because he knew he had not been honest about regime change to the British public and that he was overstressing WMD to overcome ...
... Resolution 1441 would have demonstrated that the Security Council is a political forum , not a court of law . Blair's problem with such diplomacy was that it would have meant involving others , particularly his own Foreign Secretary ...
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