Posted on 9/11/2016, 10:31:28 PM by cotton1706
In a week marked by dire polls, the Kennedy surge and fresh drug charges against his chief of staff Hamilton Jordan, it was all Jimmy Carter needed. In the third mile of a tough 6.2-mile race through the Catoctin Mountains in Maryland—pulling hard uphill, foolishly trying to outpace himself and leaving far better runners behind—the President began to wobble. "Without the Secret Service he would have fallen," says Paul Liebler, a CBS producer who was running close by. "His legs couldn't support him, his mouth hung open, he was moaning and his eyes had a glazed look. It was very scary." White House physician Dr. William Lukash, an unofficial organizer of the race, gave Carter smelling salts and, spurning an ambulance, rushed him to Camp David in a car.
En route, the White House Situation Room alerted National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to a grim possibility: that the President was having a heart attack and might have to be evacuated quickly to a hospital. At Camp David, Dr. Lukash treated Carter with an intravenous saline solution, wrapped him in wet towels to cool him off and administered an electrocardiogram. The President turned out to be suffering from heat exhaustion, or heat stroke, a fairly common problem among runners. Even before Vice-President Mondale was notified, the alert was canceled.
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I hope the Dems aren’t thinking this is going to help her...
Other than the weak legs, how was Jimmuh's appearance out of the ordinary?
Carter was running a foot race. Hillary can’t even walk unescorted.
Ah, fond memories!
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