"Heart Attack"
Memoir
By: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Date: 1963
Source: Eisenhower, Dwight D. "Heart Attack" in Mandate for Change, 1953–1956. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1963.
About the Author: Dwight David Eisenhower (1890–1969) was born in Denison, Texas, and graduated from the Military Academy at West Point in 1915. During World War I, he received the Distinguished Service Medal and in World War II rose to five-star general in command of all U.S. troops in Europe. In 1948, he retired from the Army to become president of Columbia University. From 1953 to 1961, he was president of the United States.
Introduction
Despite its advances, medicine had made little headway against heart disease by the 1950s. By then, it was the leading killer of Americans, killing twice the number of people as did cancer, the second leading killer. This is understandable, for aging diminishes...
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