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When a heart transplant was suggested and a score of Americans offered to donate their hearts, Ike's doctors declared: "Such a procedure is not indicated because of the general's age and the presence of other major medical conditions"-his widespread artery disease might have affected many vital organs...
...Cripple. Far from making a "cardiac cripple" of their patient, as so many doctors were still doing, Ike's physicians advised him to get all the exercise he could. He did not overeat, and he cut down on hard fats and sweets. This regimen kept Eisenhower's arteries working well for eight full years. Then came his second and third heart attacks, in 1965. Again, Ike recovered astonishingly well for a man then 75 years old. But more episodes were predictable...
JOHN GARDNER, addressing the Republican Platform Committee in Miami Beach last week, might have added that the nation's unhappy mood has given the G.O.P. an exciting and historic chance as well. Not since 1952 has the party in power been so vulnerable. Even without an Ike like figure atop their lead elephant, the Republicans have both the opportunity and the will to reoccupy the White House in January and to re-establish credentials that they have not held since Herbert Hoover...
Error Margin. To justify the apparent turnabout, Gallup suggested that the timing of the poll taking was crucial. Gallup's sampling was made between July 19 and 21, just after Dwight Eisenhower endorsed Nixon. Ike's announcement may have swung some sentiment to his former Vice President...
...Nixon aide, who proposed that the debates be held in the homes of each of the nominees with the whole family of each candidate participating. The arrangement quickly fell through, however, when Nixon arranged for a rush marriage of his daughter to the Eisenhower boy and then declared Ike "an intimate member of his family...