Word: burkley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rear Admiral George G. Burkley, U.S. Navy, personal physician to the President, brought her into the operating room, insisting "it's her prerogative, it's her prerogative." Doctor Malcolm Perry, the operating surgeon, wanted her out. But she said, "It's my husband, his blood, his brains are all over...
...John K. Burkley Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
During the White House years, when Vice Admiral George G. Burkley was his physician, Johnson suffered no angina, the pain that results when the heart muscle protests that it is not getting enough blood. Indeed, Burkley recalls: "If you hadn't known of his previous attack, you would have had a hard time finding anything in his electrocardiogram to indicate...
There was no excess of cholesterol or other fatty substances in the blood. "We tried to keep him on a low-intake diet," Burkley says, "but he wasn't starved on any strict regimen as a true cardiac patient would be, because he was a normal individual during those years." He got some exercise-swimming, walking, an occasional gym workout-and he usually took an afternoon nap. His blood pressure was normal...