Sanders says at town hall he won't release more medical records - some reactions

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

116. FDR was almost 30 years younger when he was elected in 1932 - 50, not pushing 80.

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The effects of polio were chronic; aside from the damage to his legs he was not unhealthy at the time he was elected for the first time. But his health started to decline after about 1940.

In 1944 he was found to have high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease causing angina pectoris, and congestive heart failure. During the 1944 re-election campaign, McIntire denied several times that Roosevelt's health was poor; on October 12, for example, he announced that "The President's health is perfectly OK. There are absolutely no organic difficulties at all." Roosevelt realized that his declining health could eventually make it impossible for him to continue as president, and in 1945 he told a confidant that he might resign from the presidency following the end of the war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1945.

Would he have been re-elected in 1944 if his doctor hadn't misrepresented his condition?