Top 5 Presidents with Major Health Problems

3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Everyone today who has heard of Franklin D. Roosevelt knows that  our 32nd president suffered from paralysis due to a bout with polio. At the time, however, this was kept hidden from the public, as if being unable to walk were a disqualification for holding the office of president.

Should being a paraplegic be a disqualification for the presidency? Most people today would agree that it should not. But on the other hand, the great lengths to which the White House press corps went to hide Roosevelt’s condition from the public shows an eerie complicity with the president. It’s quite possible that the American voters at the time would have continued to elect the four term winner over and over again, if they had known the truth. But the fact that the press went to such lengths to conspire with Roosevelt to keep the truth hidden is a cause for dismay. Could the mainstream media be doing the same today to enable Hillary Clinton? When Hillary has trouble walking, it is not due to a paralysis from polio. If she has a disease that affects the brain, such as Parkinson’s, then public does have the right to know.

Roosevelt died while in office, during the beginning of his fourth term on April 12, 1945. He had been suffering from a great many medical conditions during the years of his presidency, though none of them appeared to affect his ability to carry out the duties of his office. The secrecy concerning his medical history persists to this day. Roosevelt’s medical record, which had been kept at Bethesda Naval Hospital, has been missing since the day he died. Someone must have had something to hide.