Some 65 years ago, as World War II raged in Europe and the Pacific, the American people faced an unprecedented constitutional crisis of which they were completely unaware — and which has remained a secret ever since.
It has long been known that President Franklin D. Roosevelt, during the last year of his life, was gravely ill with serious cardiac problems: He’d been diagnosed with acute heart failure in March 1944 and suffered from astronomically high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis.
But what the public did not know was that four years earlier, while still in the second of his four terms as president, FDR had been diagnosed with a deadly skin cancer, melanoma, in a lesion over his left eyebrow.
This disease would metastasize to Roosevelt’s abdomen and his brain, causing a tumor that eventually killed him on April 12, 1945.
Which means the cerebral hemorrhage that struck him down shortly before V-E Day was not “a bolt out of the blue,” as his doctors contended — and as historians have long believed — but the inevitable result of a catastrophic illness, compounded by heart problems.
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Most likely, one of the great american leaders in modern times. Correct me if I’m wrong but wasnt his serious health problems the reason Presidents after him could only serve two terms?
His illness made him a total push over by Stalin,the worst monster since Ghengis Khan and his mongol hordes.
His polio was also a deep dark secret, and the fact he was in a w/chair surprised everyone.
Could he keep those secrets today, probably because he was a democrat. Think of the secrets they have kept from the public regarding O.
O is in a wheel chair?
Re; #4 — Close but no cigar.
#4, who said O was in a wheel chair. FDR was, and when he stood to speak he had supports around him.
Were you around to see the movie news showing this. I was.
Mary…it was a joke and even Jack got it.
As for FDR, he was so popular that he was elected to four terms and was given credit for pulling America out of the great depression and lead them to victory in World War II. Not a bad record even for a Democrat considering the Republicans of the day did not want involvement in (the beginning of) World War II.
http://www.answers.com/topic/franklin-d-roosevelt
#7, sorry, but with all the attacks certain trolls are making over the least little misspelling of a name or apostorophes, (sp) and andything pro the PM and anti terrorist, you never know if one is serious. I should have known.
Anyone watch the sorry effort of ctv to cover the repatriation today. CBC did a great job of it.
At one time, America was an Isolationist nation and many (Republicans) did not want entry into World War II.
http://www.histclo.com/essay/war/ww2/cou/us/usiso-is.html