Word: addison
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...part of the Bush Administration, his medical fragility (if that's what it is) raises semiurgent questions about illness and power. When young John Kennedy was elected in 1960, he had already been given the sacrament of Extreme Unction several times. He had suffered for years from life-threatening Addison's disease. Kennedy succeeded Dwight Eisenhower, whose presidency was much afflicted by heart trouble and ileitis. Lyndon Johnson, following J.F.K., had a history of heart attacks and a Rabelaisian appetite for all sorts of things that were not good for his coronary arteries, including quantities of Scotch. He abdicated...
...most exciting match of the day, though, was the pairing of No. 1 players in which Harvard's senior co-captain Deepak Abraham, the No. 6 player in the nation, took on Amherst's Addison West. West's great hands, skillful control of the ball, and flashy play gave Abraham a tough time, but in the end proved insufficient as Abraham triumphed...
...James Addison Baker is still the Franchise Player, the man around whom every Republican President has built his team since 1975. He has been Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, White House chief of staff and, for a brief stretch under Gerald Ford, acting Secretary of Commerce (edging out George Shultz for the modern record for most top jobs). Along the way, Baker has run or overseen six campaigns for President: one for Ford, two for Ronald Reagan and three for the elder George Bush. It's a resume no one else in either party can match...
...wife Edith hid the seriousness of his condition so well that even Congress was in the dark. The Senate was reduced to dispatching a "smelling committee" to the White House in a failed attempt to sniff out his real condition. John Kennedy flatly denied that he had Addison's disease, an often fatal immune-system disorder that he struggled with all his life. After he was shot by John Hinckley Jr. in 1981, Ronald Reagan was closer to death, and slower to recover, than anyone admitted at the time. And in 1992, when Paul Tsongas was a Democratic presidential candidate...
...Kennedy's and Nixon's eyes - very different forms of intelligence, of course, but two different expressions of the real thing. Kennedy and Nixon both had terrible defects (more than anyone knew at the time). Kennedy's beautiful facade concealed a weirdly reckless sex life and potentially fatal disease (Addison's). Nixon had his own shadows (less well disguised...