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...problem with many J.F.K. documentaries is that the biography overwhelms the history, but Revealed does a good job of connecting the two. J.F.K. reappointed J. Edgar Hoover, for instance, because the FBI director kept an all-the-President's-women file, and his illnesses--colitis, prostatitis, Addison's disease, back pain, a cholesterol level of more than 400--taxed him heavily during national crises. This is familiar ground, but Revealed also makes good use of recently declassified tapes--J.F.K. talking with advisers during the Cuban missile crisis, with the Governor of Mississippi during the James Meredith uproar--to show...
Dressed in a black button down and khakis, Kubik, who speaks without a trace of a Polish accent—though with a hint of Addison, Illinois, the suburb of Chicago where he now lives—addressed the audience in English and Walesa in Polish, asking him about coal mines in the country. The mines’ workers, finding themselves out of work and now faced with a supply-and-demand economy and not all that much demand, have attacked the economic policies of the current government...
...reminded via the marketplace that a sizable majority of us don't like it. The radio talk-show host who violated the code is easily taken care of this way. Probably won't be, though, because the sizable majority doesn't listen to such garbage. Dick Walsh Addison, Texas...
...maladies for August 1961," writes Dallek, "provide a window into his struggle to remain effectively attentive to the public's business. His stomach and urinary ailments were a daily distraction." He was taking codeine sulfate and procaine for his pain, penicillin for his infection, cortisone for his Addison's and so on. His back was killing him--the steroids had been weakening his spine. "Something as simple as bending over a lectern to read a speech caused him terrible pain. Out of sight of the press, he went up and down helicopter stairs one step at a time...
Does Kennedy's medical condition make him a hero? Or does his years' long concealment of such matters as his life-threatening Addison's disease instead reconfirm the streak of selfish recklessness that was equally evident in his sexual risk taking? If the facts of his health had been known in 1960, of course, Kennedy never would have been elected President. This was a man who, three times before Dallas, had been in such dire physical condition that he was given the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. The presidential biographer Richard Reeves has remarked that "in a lifetime...