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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...
While the doctors worked, Jackie stood in a corner with Presidential Physician George Burkley and "rested her spattered cheek" on Burkley's shoulder, then "knelt in the President's blood and closed her eyes in prayer." Later, in the corridor, Secret Service Chauffeur Bill Greer came up to her and sobbed, "Oh Mrs. Kennedy, oh my God, oh my God, I didn't mean to do it, I didn't hear, I should have swerved the car, I couldn't help it." Then he embraced her and wept on her shoulder...
...center of a small but heated controversy. Just who was present during L.B.J.'s inaugural oath? Asked about it on Meet the Press, Author William Manchester reiterated what he had reported in a Look installment of The Death of a President: every male Kennedy aide, except Dr. George Burkley, had insultingly ducked the swearing-in. Stoughton's pictures show that Manchester is wrong...
...midst of all this, Luci gave a party for 60 White House staff members of all stations, including Vice Admiral George Burkley, the chief physician, and Electrician Trophes Bryant, the unofficial keeper of the presidential kennels. She had stayed up the night before until 3 a.m., autographing color photographs of herself and Pat to be used as gifts for the staff. One sample, for Assistant Chef Nick Salvador: "With deep appreciation for yummy fried eggs and homemade toast, but most of all for your delightful sense of humor, your ever-smiling face and your friendship." At dawn, when the President...