Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country at any former time. The U.S. was told what his wife read to him, what music he heard and how it was with his eliminative processes. A British reporter was horrified at the intimacy. After listening to Dr. Paul Dudley White's candid exegesis of a medical bulletin, the Briton exclaimed: "Imagine the BBC reporting that about the Queen!" Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty overheard him, replied: "Every American family has had a heart attack in it. People are deeply interested in the President's recovery. This is very important...
...Sunday evening medical bulletin described the President as "tired," but added that his pulse, temperature and blood pressure were normal. As the patient neared the end of the first critical fortnight, Dr. White prepared to fly back to Denver to work out a program of convalescence with the other doctors. If all went well, the President would be flown back to his Gettysburg farm in two or three weeks. After another month of convalescence there, he may be able to return to Washington and full duty...
...that he was going home "partly because the President's condition is so satisfactory and partly because he has such excellent attention here." He then gave a lengthy dissertation on coronary thrombosis and continued with a curious dialogue in which Press Secretary James Hagerty read the morning medical bulletin sentence by sentence, and Dr. White explained each sentence. Excerpts...
Hagerty (reading from the bulletin...
Hagerty (continuing the bulletin): He enjoyed a breakfast of prunes, oatmeal, soft-boiled egg (singular), toast and milk...