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...director of the Foundation for Mind Research, who is described by Woodward as "a believer in spirits, mythic and historic connections to the past and other worlds." In one hour-long session in April 1995, Houston led the First Lady through an imaginary conversation with her idol Eleanor Roosevelt. As Hillary and some of her aides gathered around a table in the White House solarium, Houston encouraged Hillary to close her eyes and reveal her difficulties to the illusory Mrs. Roosevelt. Next, under Houston's direction, Mrs. Clinton took up the part of Eleanor herself, telling Hillary how hard...
Every morning, on the way to my office, I cross the portico from which Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the first NIH buildings on a late fall day in 1940. His paralyzed legs braced with metal, his energies worn down by his third Presidential campaign, his mind focused on the World War already being waged in Europe, FDR made a powerful statement about medical research...
...Roosevelt's optimism about medical research seems, in retrospect, amazing. Doctors could not prevent or treat the poliovirus infection that had paralyzed him nearly twenty years earlier. John Franklin Enders and vaccines were still in the future; the main therapies were iron lungs and warm baths. Most of the staples of modern medicine were also still unknown. Antibiotics. Hormone replacements. Effective drug therapies for psychotic illnesses. Pre-natal testing. Coronary bypass surgery and artifical joints. Also in the future were medications that could have lowered FDR's blood pressure and perhaps forestalled the stroke that killed him less than five...
...talkies had taken over; Fairbanks sounded flutey and looked older in them. In 1933 he and Pickford separated. The swashbuckler was 50; another Roosevelt with a big smile was giving America a Fairbanksian jolt of optimism, and Doug was disconsolate. He told his son Douglas Jr. (by then a film star himself), "I've done everything--twice." Not just two Zorro movies and two D'Artagnans, but two careers, two marriages, too much work and play. He said he wanted to die quickly...
...Robert] Kennedy fell...The gun, waving wildly, kept pumping bullets, and found five other human targets. Eight men in all, including Rafer Johnson, an Olympic champion, and Roosevelt Grier, a 300-lb. Los Angeles Rams football lineman, attempted to overpower the slight but lithe assailant. Johnson finally knocked the pistol out of the stubborn hand [and together with Grier held the suspect] spread-eagled on the counter. Several R.F.K. supporters tried to kill the man with their hands. Johnson and Grier fended them off. Someone had the presence of mind to shout: 'Let's not have another Oswald!' Johnson pocketed...