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The headlines of April 13, 1945, stunned the nation and the world. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States, had died in Warm Springs, Georgia, the day before. Presumably, he had been in excellent health, there was no indication of imminent danger, and as Admiral Ross McIntire, the president's personal physician, asserted, the cerebral hemorrhage "came out of the clear sky" (Figure 1).¹ Steve Early, press secretary for the White House, stated officially that "the President was given a thorough examination by seven or eight physicians, including some of the most eminent in the country, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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