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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...
...went on to discredit not only fascism but communism as well, that strength still came at a terrible cost. "How much happier a world it would be if one did not have to mount crusades against racism, segregation, a Holocaust, the extermination of 'inferior peoples,'" notes presidential historian Robert Dallek. "We don't need evil. We'd do fine without Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot. Think of the amount of money and energy used in World War II--if only they could have been used in constructive ways. Good doesn't need evil. We'd be just as well...
...JUDGES Stephen E. Ambrose, Alan Brinkley, Robert Dallek, David M. Kennedy, William E. Leuchtenburg, Ernest R. May, Walter A. McDougall, Herbert S. Parmet, Arthur Schlesinger...
...Cross/Blue Shield. The two insurance giants cover more than 50 percent of the $12 billion Medigap market. The group attributed much of the increase in premiums to hospital outpatient charges, which are not capped for Medicare beneficiaries -- and therefore represent an opportunity for hospitals to pad costs. Said Geraldine Dallek, the group's health policy director: "As Medicare squeezed part of the balloon in terms of inpatient costs, the other part of the balloon has expanded." The bad news for seniors: the rise in Medigap premiums far outpaced Medicare inflation or Social Security Cost of Living adjustments in many states...