A swollen abdomen described as that of a “dying frog.”
A recent heart attack.
Anticoagulant therapy.
And the patient was the President of the United States.
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1956 emergency operation was already high-risk — but the story did not end with surgery.
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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. Already when running for his first term as president, a poll found Dwight D. Eisenhower to be the most admired living American,…