THE PRESIDENCY: A- 1

Twenty-four hours after entering Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center for his annual head-to-toe physical examination, a ruddy, smiling Dwight Eisenhower—onetime victim of a heart attack (1955), ileitis (1956) and mild stroke (1957)—came out with the pronouncement from his doctors that he is in "an excellent state of health."

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