my dad is 76 and nobama would call him 'sir' if he knew who he is walking with.

Eisenhower was not in office when he died. He died in March of 1969 almost ten years after leaving office. He did have a heart attack while in office. Given time could give you exact date because the Secret Service visited my father the night before to inform him the President would be attending the church he was the minister of. He never suffered a stroke while in office.

Some believe the Woodrow Wilson was incapacitated during his some of his years in office.

Yes I have the documentation. A letter from the White House extending apologies that the President was not able to attend the service.

The 25th Amendment was passed in 1965 to do two things. First to allow the President to nominate a person to be Vice President should that office become vacant. Which it has several times prior to 1965. It also allows for the President to temporarily transmit Presidential powers to the Vice President. This was first used by Lyndon Johnson when he had surgery on his gall bladder. Ronald Reagan also used this after the assination attempt. George Bush also use it when he was sedated during a medical proceedure.

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Kristi

Being confined to a wheelchair has no affect on one's mental capacity.

exactly. he was old, not incapacitated.

neither is Mc Cain. He may be wounded, physically, but, he is alive and well and fit to lead, not man a shovel.

Most people did not realize FDR used a wheelchair. It is interesting that a time the country was handicapped by the economy a President was elected who was also handicapped.

Would he be elected today? Probably not. Television has changed everything.

Senator Robert Dole spent his career carrying a pen in his polio deformed hand that was of little use to him.


very few Americans ever noticed.

It never got thrown in his face, but he addressed it in his bid for the presidency.

one has to wonder........

It is the content and character of the man that leads well that is what we ought to focus on, not how pretty and fresh his flesh appears to be.

looks can be very deceiving.

The Honorable Senator from Kansas suffered a severe wound in Italy while serving with the 10th Mountain Division. His hand was injured at that time...not due to Polio. He received two Purple Hearts and the Bronze Star.