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...agree wholeheartedly with Dr. Edgar Berman about the danger of having members of the weaker sex in the White House or any other position of power [Aug. 10]. Let us get rid of all the hormonally unbalanced, aging males with mounting anxieties over their own impotency and inadequacy, and corresponding need to prove themselves on the national and international battle fronts...
...Glands! Glands! Glands! I think the good Dr. Berman erred by omission rather than commission. He neglected to state that middle-aged men frequently suffer the miseries of the male climacteric. The cycle occurs every 51-55 days...
...just dare Dr. Edgar Berman to say that to Mrs. Meir...
Humphrey denied any responsibility for appointing Dr. Berman and bucked the issue back to his friend. Medical colleagues suggested that Berman was overstating an old bugaboo and that he stick to surgery instead of straying into gynecology. Said Yale's Dr. Nathan Kase: "I don't think menopause is necessarily as common a disruption as, let's say, a headache." Whatever hormonal imbalances occur can be treated with medication, much like diabetes. But Berman, an early heart-transplant experimenter, soon drew blood again. He termed the Mink letter to Humphrey "a typical example of an ordinarily controlled...
Nonetheless, Dr. Berman's cycle as a member of the Committee on National Priorities had ended. Lamenting that "the whole world seems to be uptight," he resigned, still insisting that women "are different...