Word: throat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barely 30 minutes off the operating table, the nation's least patient patient signaled for a pen and scrawled a message to his doctors on the back of a medical form: "Tell me something." The surgeons obediently described the operations to remove a polyp from his throat and repair an abdominal hernia, but their fill-in was far too sketchy for Lyndon Johnson. "Tell me all that took place," he commanded in a second note. Thus began what will doubtless rate as the most exposed convalescence in presidential history...
...know that my doctors have recommended that I undergo surgery to repair a defect at the site of the incision made during the gall bladder operation a year ago," said Johnson. His physicians suggested that the operation, along with another to remove a 3-mm. polyp from his throat (see MEDICINE), should take place in 15 to 18 days. In the meantime, he was ordered to begin "a reduced schedule of activity" at once, and to take off some weight (currently about 215 Ibs.). For that reason, he said, he was leaving the following day for Texas...
...those who would later insist that Lee Harvey Oswald must have had an accomplice. Their suspicions were based primarily on the commission's controversial "single-bullet theory." This is its conclusion that a bullet hit the back of Kennedy's neck and emerged through his lower throat before it struck Texas Governor John Connally in the back, smashed across a rib, shattered his right wrist, and punctured his left thigh. Commission members accepted this explanation after they saw a tourist's film of the assassination, which indicated that the interval between Kennedy's reaction to being...
...house where Lee Harvey Oswald lived-and proved a helpful witness before the Warren Commission-died last January. Ramparts says that she had been subjected to "intensive police harassment," adds with sinister implication of foul play that "no autopsy was performed." In fact, Mrs. Roberts had severe heart disease, throat ulcers and cataracts. The cause of death, "acute myocardial infarction," was determined after an autopsy by a doctor at Parkland Hospital...
...great majority are benign tumors, but while the President is still under the anesthetic, his polyp will be cut up and examined under the microscope to make sure there is no malignancy. Removal is a simple matter of inserting a tube with a light at the end down the throat and slipping a basket-shaped forceps down the tube to snip off the polyp...