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knew that your physician, called in
to examine you, so violated medical
ethics that he talked over your case
with your friends or with strangers or
newspaper reporters? I think most
people would have no further con-
fidence in such a doctor.

Dr. Wold tells further on of an-
other doctor (and these doctors are
continually anonymous in Dr. Wold’s
article) who, he says, was an exam-
ining physician when Father had a
thorough checkup at the Naval Med-
ical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, in
June, 1944. Dr. Wold writes:

“In June, 1944, one examining phy-
sician gave a private opinion there
was a 50-50 chance that Roosevelt
wouldn’t even live to the end of his
term . . . the third one.”

That examining physician most
certainly violated medical ethics. And
it would seem self-evident that any
man with the responsibilities that
rested on the President would have
frequent and thorough medical
checkups, and that the best doctors
would be asked to participate in these

checkups. It also seems to me eviden
that if there was anything to hide
about Father’s health, private physi
cians would not have been invited in

I was living in the White House
and in constant contact with my
father at the time of this supposec
second stroke, and was also constantly
in touch with Admiral McIntire, whe
was caring for Father’s case of influ
enza. I repeat again, Father did not
have a stroke.

Later in the LooJ^ article, Dr. Wole
writes about the 1944 campaign anc
the rumors that Father’s health was
bad, adding:

“New Dealers urged Roosevelt tc
make a public appearance to quiei
rumors. The day set for the occasior
turned out raw and wet, and Roose-
velt’s family objected strenuously tc
the trip because of the weather. Bui
Admiral McIntire pronounced the
President fit to make an appearance
and the family was overruled.”

It so happens that I helped to make
the plans for all of Father’s campaign
(Continued on page 112]

Next Month in THE W OMAN

MY CHILDHOOD WITH FDR

Continuing her story in next month’s issue of The Woman, Anna
Roosevelt will go back to the days of her childhood as she turns the
pages of an album of fascinating photographs, most of which have never
been published before. Some of the pictures to appear exclusively in The
Woman were taken before her memory could possibly start to function,
but even the earliest ones bring back remembrances of a very happy
childhood—unclouded, in those early years, by desecrating rumors and
untrue stories about the Roosevelt family.