Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secret Service agents, slid off into the cool, clear Washington night. Thirty-eight minutes later, again looking preoccupied and rather alone, Nixon checked into the third-floor presidential suite at Bethesda Naval Hospital. The President, said his personal physician, Dr. Walter R. Tkach, had come down with viral pneumonia (see MEDICINE...
...check into the hospital. Tkach (pronounced tuh-kosh) said that the President would spend from seven to ten days there. He was, said Tkach, "moderately sick." Nixon was given an antibiotic and an analgesic, and cut down his work load to one-quarter of its normal amount. With his pneumonia, he was running a temperature (between 101° and 102°), and his breathing was slightly quicker than usual...
Complex Battle. Even without his pneumonia, it had not been a happy week for Nixon, whose last unmitigated joy was probably his Inauguration night months ago. Quite apart from the public testimony, the Senate's Watergate investigating committee was bearing down on Nixon in a complex battle to force him to release White House papers that might reveal the inner mechanics of the scandal...
President Nixon entered Bethesda Naval Hospital last night for treatment of what White House doctors diagnosed as viral pneumonia...
...young woman, Elizabeth is not particularly conscious of her body, which when finally described, turns out to be downright voluptuous. She is the kind of girl who does not know her proper dress size and will walk around with pneumonia. A bookcase falls on her in the middle of the night. Yet she has staying power and a willingness to learn. Above all, she is "drunk with a desire to lead a normal life." Elizabeth is a conventional woman, but not so conventional as to think that happiness is the most important thing in life. Although too busy living...