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Reagan at first tried to deflate the issue with quips. "I'll challenge him [Mondale] to an arm wrestle any time," he joked. Retorted Mondale: "We had a little brain wrestle on Sunday night." Reagan's physician, Dr. Daniel Ruge, volunteered that Reagan was "tired, everybody was tired" in the debate. Told of Ruge's comment by reporters, Reagan's response was defensive and somewhat baffling: "You got it wrong. He was tired...
...admire the tulips that had bloomed while he was in the hospital. He took penicillin orally to guard against infection of the lung pierced by the would-be assassin's bullet. But that was Reagan's only medication. The President's personal physician, Dr. Daniel Ruge, found no need to conduct any extensive examinations on his twice daily visits. He merely performed brief checkups and asked the First Patient how he felt. "It sure hurts to get shot," Reagan told aides with a wry smile. Nonetheless, he ate heartily enough to begin putting back some weight...
When Reagan went horseback riding at Quantico, Va., Ruge, who spent some of his boyhood on the backs of his father's Percherons, watched with a certain nostalgia from the fences. "The President is a marvelous physical specimen," he said. "His very demeanor shows that he is healthy...
From that conclusion, Ruge's approach to White House health was plotted. He would not stalk the President, believing that an overzealous doctor can create a dependent patient...
Reagan was his own best doctor in many ways, Ruge noted. The President could pace himself, discipline his appetites, his activity. "He simply knows how to take care of himself," declared Ruge. That is in marked contrast to the excesses of work and indulgence seen in other Presidents, notably L.B. J. Ruge has studied carefully the White House environment, Reagan's state of mind, any symptoms of stress. What he found was reassuring. He noted that those who traveled with the President, whether staff or Secret Service agents, genuinely liked him. That aura, created in large part by Reagan...