When delegates to the 1956 Republican Convention sang "Ike for four
more years," they were celebrating the President's health as much
as his political agenda. Dwight Eisenhower had suffered a heart
attack less than a year before, and his decision to seek a second
term symbolized for many Americans Ike's victory over a nearly
fatal illness. This, it seems, was the intended effect.
Previous Eisenhower biographers have touched on his heart
condition, but Clarence Lasby is the first to examine the impact of
the president's health on the nation. He offers a dramatic
revisionist account of the events surrounding the 1955 heart attack
and subsequent efforts by the president and his staff to minimize
its political impact.
Drawing on newly-opened medical records and personal papers of
Eisenhower's physicians, Lasby challenges virtually everything we
have believed about the president's heart attack. Most
disturbingly, he has discovered that the president's personal
physician, Dr. Howard Snyder, misdiagnosed the attack as a
gastrointestinal problem and waited ten hours before sending
Eisenhower to the hosptial.
Lasby also sets the record straight on how the president and his
aides "managed" the public's understanding of events, and he offers
evidence that Eisenhower, Dr. Snyder, and press secretary James
Hagerty withheld and recast information to serve the president's
political priorities.
Equally important, Lasby's book offers a touching portrait of a
proud man faced with a debilitating disease. It examines Ike's
private struggle to lead a full life despite his condition and
analyzes his decision to seek a second term even against the advice
of cardiologist Paul Dudley White. It also shows how a man who had
always carefully looked after his health now became obsessed with
it.
"Eisenhower's Heart Attack" is both a remarkable medical case
history and an incisive character study of a strong-willed leader.
It further illuminates one of our nation's most popular presidents,
as it recharges the debate over the relationship between politics
and presidential health--and between national security and the
public's right to know.
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