Medical Histories of Presidential Candidates


"Only the grave has scored a victory over their never-ending dreams." 1a

My God! What is there in this place that anyone should want to get into it?
--   James G. Blaine, at a White House dinner, 1878 1b 2a

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Cited Sources
  1. Stoddard, Henry L. It Costs to Be President. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938.
    a  p.11  b  p.187  c  p.5  d  p.192  e  p.1  f  p.4

    Comment: Stoddard was editor and owner of the New York Evening Mail from 1900 to 1925.

  2. Dallek, Robert. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963. Boston: Little, Brown, 2003.
    a  p.504 - Dallek attributes the remark to President James Garfield in 1881
  3. Manners, William. TR and Will: A Friendship that Split the Republican Party. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1969.
    a  p.249  b  p.253
  4. James, Marquis. Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, unknown year (originally published in 1937 by Bobbs-Merrill).
    a  pp.376-377/59-60