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Health and Medical History of President Lyndon JohnsonPresident #36: 1963-1969
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This style... | ... means the event occurred while President. |
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![]() height |
Johnson was six feet, three and a half inches tall
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![]() ![]() infarct #1 |
Big myocardial infarction (heart attack) in the 1950s. He would probably have been in his 40s. Since that time, was always
afraid of being alone
2a.
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![]() ![]() ER angina |
One resident physician at Parkland, who was on his way to the emergency room after Kennedy
was brought in on November 22, 1963, later wrote:
As I turned to continue to Trauma Room 1, there was Lyndon Johnson, being ushered into one of the minor-medicine cubicles... His face was ashen, and he was holding his chest. Only recently, he had had a coronary, and I was afraid he was having another heart attack. 3a |
![]() type A personality |
Type A personality if there ever was one. But Johnson loved it. "I don't have ulcers.
I give them!"
4a
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![]() daily naps |
"Napped every workday as President"
5a
(no primary source given).
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![]() cholecystectomy |
He was a man who was not afraid to show his healing cholecystectomy scar to the press. Famous
political cartoon of scar drawn as a map of Viet Nam.
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![]() ![]() ![]() sudden death |
Had sudden unexpected death. He was alone. He was found stretched out on his bed, reaching
for the telephone [Califano]
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a p.354 b pp.349-350
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a p.28 b pp.54-55 c pp.137-138
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a p.76
Comment: This book has been roundly criticized by other physicians involved in the Kennedy case.
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a p.309 b p.323
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a p.225
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![]() | Comment: Pachter was at the time Director of the National Portrait Gallery. |