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Robert Dallek

Profession : Historian

Birth : May 16, 1934

In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.

Robert Dallek

The disaster at the Bay of Pigs intensified Kennedy's doubts about listening to advisers from the CIA, the Pentagon, or the State Department who had misled him or allowed him to accept lousy advice.

Robert Dallek

Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.

Robert Dallek

William Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia in April of 1841, after only one month in office, was the first Chief Executive to hide his physical frailties.

Robert Dallek

The lifelong health problems of John F. Kennedy constitute one of the best-kept secrets of recent U.S. history - no surprise, because if the extent of those problems had been revealed while he was alive, his presidential ambitions would likely have been dashed.

Robert Dallek