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...discovered F.D.R.'s alarming symptoms in 1944 was Howard Bruenn, then a 39-year-old lieutenant commander. Bruenn, a cardiologist, had been picked by the President's personal physician, Vice Admiral Ross McIntire, who suspected F.D.R.'s heart trouble. After Bruenn reported his findings to Mclntire, the admiral not only kept telling newsmen that F.D.R. was fine, but it also seems clear that he never revealed to the President the true state of his health...
Bishop reasons that Mclntire and Roosevelt understood each other so well after eleven years together that they had instinctively entered into a conspiracy of silence. The evidence shows that F.D.R. suspected that he was seriously ill but wanted to pretend that everything was all right in hopes of remaining in office until World War II was won. As for Mclntire, he had no desire to destroy the illusions-and perhaps the political future-of the most powerful man in the world...
...Mclntire died in 1959 still insisting that he had been correct in telling the press in the spring and fall of 1944 that Roosevelt was in "excellent condition for a man of his age." Dr. Bruenn, now 69 and practicing in New York City, recalls that F.D.R.'s physical condition did improve in his last year, but says that he was by no means a healthy man. Bruenn explains Mclntire's reassuring statements to the press as having been "all politics and loyalty...
This is an adaptation of one Neil Simon play that the author might like to forget. The heroine, an aspiring Olympic swimmer, is a jabbering pixy whose notion of Americanism Dr. Carl Mclntire might find a tad overzealous. The premise-a little flimsy even for a half-hour episode on a TV sitcom-is that this young lady drives two underground California journalists into transports of romantic ecstasy...
...Mclntire wants to turn the Cape into a combination retirement village, college and convention center for supporters of his anti-Communist gospel. He has closed the bar in the Hilton and plans to impress the lessons of the Scriptures on visitors by converting buildings once owned by space contractors into replicas of biblical scenes. There will be a kitsch re-creation of King Solomon...