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...Upped his naval aide, Captain James H. Foskett, to rear admiral. ¶Passed over 158 ranking medical directors to pick Michigan-born Captain Clifford Anders Swanson, 45, specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat ailments, to be surgeon general of the Navy, succeeding Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire. ¶Gave tea, dinner (black tie) and a night's lodging to South Africa's Field Marshal Jan Smuts, brought in General Eisenhower for the after-dinner talk...
Worn but Sound. Dr. Mclntire's memoirs of these years is fiercely protective of his patient, generally devoid of spectacular revelations and gossip. "In writing of Teheran and Yalta," says Mclntire, "it has become the fixed habit of many editors and columnists to state without qualification that Franklin Roosevelt was a sick man, even a dying man." In fact, says Mclntire, he was "tired and worn" and underweight from overwork, but "organically sound" save for a chronic sinus condition. But once the rumors of his decrepitude had been noised around, Mclntire remarks bitterly, supporting evidence was fabricated...
There is no doubt, Mclntire insists, that the President undertook his last two terms because he was convinced that his country needed him, and that he scorned to conserve his own vitality by cutting down on his killing pace...
Winnie the Enemy. Mclntire's principal clues to his master's condition were simply "[his] color, the tone of his voice, the tilt of his chin, and the way he tackled his orange juice, cereal, and eggs." He got F.D.R.'s valets to pass on to him any pertinent details. He learned to peek unobtrusively at the height of the presidential workbasket and "the wash" (F.D.R.'s name for the countless documents that required his signature), to estimate the hours of work the President had before him, and to lay plans accordingly. He came to recognize...
...that landed above the belt. [But] his irritation was invariably stirred by the mean and little. Being 'nibbled to death by ducks' was the way he phrased it." CJ He signed the bill authorizing the Chemical Warfare Service with horror and disgust. CWS's results, says Mclntire, "were and are, in my opinion, more . . . devastating than the atomic bomb. . . ." CJ He was contemptuous of his own safety, saying "If anyone wants to kill me, there is no possible way to prevent him." When