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By Clarence G. Lasby. 384 pp. Lawrence, Kansas, University Press of Kansas, 1997. $29.95. ISBN 0-7006-0822-2.

Imagine being the physician called to the bedside of the most powerful and beloved man in the world after he awoke with severe chest pain. This daunting task fell to Dr. Howard M. Snyder when President Dwight Eisenhower summoned him in the early-morning hours of April 24, 1955. Snyder was ill equipped to handle such an assignment. He had been a career army surgeon, but since 1945 his only job was that of Eisenhower's personal physician. Dr. Snyder, who had attended the president through many attacks of gastrointestinal distress, gave his patient morphine and sat at his bedside for the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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