Unhealthy Stealth
President Franklin Roosevelt, it is now known, lost his ability to walk when he got polio as an adult. During his presidency, that fact was concealed from the public, with the help of the press. Several presidents with serious health problems have been able to hide their physical vulnerability while in office. Grover Cleveland, in 1893, was determined to conceal an operation for a mouth tumor, so even though it was successful, he smeared the reporter who reported the story. When Woodrow Wilson was paralyzed from a stroke towards the end of his second term, his wife Edith vetoed release of information to the public. He was disabled so severely and for so long - while Edith controlled access to him - that she was called "The Secret President."
During her husband's presidency, Edith Wilson was better known as a descendant of Pocahontas.
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