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WHITE HOUSE PHYSICIAN (244 pp.)-Vice-Admiral Ross T. Mclntire-Putnam...
...White House physician," Admiral Mclntire explains, "may not wait until the President picks up a germ, runs a temperature. . . . The job is to keep him well . . . and that entails daily observation. . . . [The] medicine man of the Great White Father must have the run of the place . . . in parlor, bedroom, and bath...
...White House physician, Mclntire observed F.D.R. almost daily throughout his presidency. No one close to Roosevelt, says Mclntire, ever thought of him as a cripple. His stupendous vitality and cheerfulness drowned out the clicking of his duralumin braces, overshadowed the wheelchair itself. (No one was more delighted than the President when Mme. Chiang Kai-shek so far forgot his condition as to beg him not to get up and see her to the door.) Mclntire believes that, but for the strain of the war years, which made it impossible for the President to follow his schedule of exercises, he might...
...room. She returned after a few moments to apologize for leaving "in this way," and rode back to the White House. In her sitting room on the second floor, surrounded by hundreds of cherished photographs of her family and friends, she faced Stephen Early and Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire. "The President," said Early, "has slept away...
...changed to a black dress. By 7:15 in the evening she was ready. She kissed Anna goodbye and strode with her usual determined gait to the waiting limousine, accompanied by Mr. Early and Admiral Mclntire. They enplaned for Georgia. In the dark morning hours, Eleanor Roosevelt walked into the little white cottage on Pine Mountain. Silent and alone, she went in to her husband...