Woodrow Wilson: Bad Teeth

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	Woodrow Wilson: Bad Teeth

terrible teeth

A photograph of Wilson on the day of his 1913 inauguration shows astonishingly bad teeth [see photo ].

Comment: This is relevant to Wilson's later stroke(s) because poor dentition has been suspected to increase the risk of atherosclerotic disease.

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A detail from the photograph is below:

The photo is held by the Library of Congress and is available on their web site in glorious 10MB resolution. Their title for the photo is: "President-elect Wilson and President Taft, standing side by side, laughing, at the White House, prior to Wilson's inauguration ceremonies, March 4, 1913." Wilson had not yet taken the oath of office, so he was still the President-elect.

(The photographer snapped the picture just after Wilson had made a comment about a young woman nearby. The full picture shows Taft laughing uproariously, as he was wont to do.)

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Anonymous. President Wilson Ill Again. New York Times. December 12, 1913; Page 1.
Benbow, Mark. Personal communication. July 2, 2003.
Boller, Paul F. Jr. Presidential Anecdotes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. ISBN 0-19-502915-1 @ Amazon [a] p. 218
Grayson, CT. Woodrow Wilson -- An Intimate Memoir. New York: Holt, Rhinehart, Winston, 1960.
Grayson was Wilson's physician during his entire tenure as President. No presidential physician before or since Grayson has had as close a relationship with the Chief Executive. It is remarkable that, in his book, Grayson devotes only one paragraph to Wilson's stroke (page 100).
MacMahon, Edward B. and Curry, Leonard. Medical Cover-Ups in the White House. Washington, DC: Farragut, 1987. ISBN 0-918535-01-8 @ Amazon [a] p. 65 [b] p. 5
Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh (ed). Burke's Presidential Families of the United States of American. 2nd ed. London: Burke's Peerage Limited, 1981. ISBN 0-85011-033-5 @ Amazon
Enumerates the ancestors and descendants of American presidents up through Ronald Reagan.
Park, Bert Edward. The Impact of Illness of World Leaders. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. ISBN 0-8122-8005-9 @ Amazon
Post, Jerrold M. and Robins, Robert S. When Illness Strikes the Leader: The Dilemma of the Captive King. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-300-06314-8 @ Amazon
At one time Post worked for the CIA, profiling foreign leaders.
Pringle, Henry F. The Life and Times of William Howard Taft: A Biography. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1939.
Ross, Ishbel. An American Family: The Tafts - 1678 to 1964. Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Co., 1964.
Smith, Gene. When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1964.
Stoddard, Henry L. It Costs to Be President. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938.
Stoddard was editor and owner of the New York Evening Mail from 1900 to 1925.
Web page: http://www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org/funfacts.htm
(From the web site of the Woodrow Wilson house in Washington, DC (9 Jul 03))
Weinstein, Edwin A. Woodrow Wilson: A Medical and Psychological Biography. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981.
The Woodrow Wilson web page at the White House.
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