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Now enter Robert Dallek, a well-known historian of the presidency, bearing another stack of evidence and more bad news. At work on a Kennedy biography, Dallek became the first scholar to examine J.F.K.'s medical records on file at the Kennedy presidential library in Boston. Somewhat to Dallek's...
In 1947 J.F.K., then 30, learned he had Addison's disease, a dysfunction of the adrenal glands that, among other things, regulate blood sugar and the body's response to stress. The treatment? More corticosteroids. In the years that followed, as he rose from Congressman to Senator to presidential hopeful...
In a democracy, we need a few reality checkpoints at which we all crowd together, nabob and yahoo, and rub elbows and get a clue about who lives here other than us. The draft-board physical used to be such a checkpoint, where even a Rockefeller had to spread them...
That it happened more or less this way is not in doubt. Where, when and why it happened are other matters. Until last week the theories had been wide ranging and contradictory. Depending on whom you asked, wolves became dogs either independently in several places or in a single location...
When I first heard of the Massachusetts Paraplegic Deer Hunt, I envisioned paraplegic deer dragging themselves through the woods, with very unsportsmanlike hunters in pursuit. I later learned it was a special three-day season for hunters who are paraplegic that began in 1972. On opening day, Oct. 31, I...