![]() ![]() ![]() “The President’s health is perfectly okay,” his lead physician wrote in an October statement to the media. His doctors increasingly deceived the press about what they knew, too. The poor communication between doctors and their important patient - in both directions - allowed FDR to answer the media’s questions about his condition more freely than if he had complete knowledge about his own health. By early 1944, examinations revealed a litany of conditions that had developed or grown worse over the years: high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, poor circulation, limited lung capacity, an enlarged heart, an intermittent slack jaw and blank stare and reduced supply of oxygen to the brain. ![]() The other medical conditions that beset him in the 1940s and ultimately killed him prompted similar deceptions. Roosevelt, who had lost the ability to walk without leg braces, famously tried to hide from public view the effects of the president’s paralysis. ![]()
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