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...Q. You've got another adversary now--cancer. How are you going to deal with that these next 3½ years? A. I'm going to do exactly what they've told me to do. The doctor himself was a little concerned because he'd used the term that I "have cancer." He says the proper thing is I "had cancer." That particular polyp, called adenoma type, is one that, if it is left, begins to develop cancerous cells. Well, this one had. But it's gone, along with the surrounding tissue. It had not spread. So I am someone...
...Q. Will the fear of cancer intrude into your life? A. No, I've never been that way about things of that kind...
...Q. Twice you have been brushed by death since you've been in this office, and you seem unfazed. You keep going, you keep your hope up. What is it? A. Well, I have a very real and deep faith. Probably I'm indebted to my mother for that. And I figure that He will make a decision, and I can't doubt that whatever He decides will be the right decision...
...Q. That's not going to affect your work...
...Q. But if cancer should show up and you had to undergo treatments, is there the possibility that you would resign, turn the job over to Vice President Bush? A. I can't foresee anything of that kind. And that is not just me talking now. That's on the basis of all that I've been told by the doctors. But, as I said once when they were talking about my age before I was elected the first time, if I found myself ever physically incapacitated where I, in my own mind, knew I could not fulfill the requirements...