Word: dallek
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...enter Robert Dallek, a well-known historian of the presidency, bearing another stack of evidence and more bad news. At work on a Kennedy biography, Dallek became the first scholar to examine J.F.K.'s medical records on file at the Kennedy presidential library in Boston. Somewhat to Dallek's surprise, a summation of his discoveries published in the December issue of the Atlantic Monthly has set off a firestorm. It's not news that J.F.K. was in poor health much of the time, but Dallek paints the fullest and most unnerving picture yet of a President in constant pain from...
...library, but Washington would pick up most of the tab for maintaining the documents housed there. (This year the Federal Government will spend about $38 million on the libraries.) Subsequent acts guaranteed that such documents would be made public. "They're an invaluable resource," says L.B.J. biographer Robert Dallek...