The deuce you say.
We used to know this. In fact, we deemed it so important that we actually added a constitutional amendment to deal with presidential unfitness due to health or other reasons.
And now, of course, we have come back full circle to 1945, when the importance of transparency on the president’s health became suddenly and shockingly germane. Democrats and the media covered up the declining physical health of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the middle of World War II, allowing him to run for an unprecedented fourth term as his health failed. He only lasted less than three months as the Allies finally made their way into Germany and worked their way up the Pacific Island chain to approach Japan. FDR’s death threw an unprepared Harry S Truman into the most critical period of the war; FDR’s decline may have contributed to decisions that allowed the Soviet…
