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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... saying to Flandrin : ' At a time when they are killing officers faithful to me in my country , I cannot reduce them to complete despair by revealing my state of health . ' So the Shah was put on intensive infusions of nitrogen mustard ...
... saying it was not vital . In the leaked memo written by Blair's adviser David Manning , recording his meeting with Bush on 31 January 2003 , prior to that press conference , the whole flavour of the discussion between them is one of ...
... saying in September 2004 : ' In my view the real stress was personal and family , which matters most to him.'100 The biographer Anthony Seldon in Blair Unbound has Blair friends saying : ' He was generally not very well in 2004 ...
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