Secret Affairs: Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles.

Franklin D. Roosevelt: his poliomyelitis and orthopaedics.

Economic class and popular support for franklin roosevelt in war and peace.

History has judged FDR as one of America's greatest leaders in part because he maintained the public's confidence in seeing the nation through the travails of the Depression and World War II. During this era, the two most widely employed explanatory variables in contemporary presidential popularity scholarship-the economy and war-assumed their most extreme values of the twentieth century. Hence...

Presidents and health reform: from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama.

The health care reforms that President Barack Obama signed into law in March 2010 were seventy-five years in the making. Since Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. presidents have struggled to enact national health care reform; most failed. This article explores the highly charged political landscape in which Obama maneuvered and the skills he brought to bear. It contrasts his accomplishments with the e...

Extending the Gyárfás-Sumner conjecture

Say a set H of graphs is heroic if there exists k such that every graph containing no member of H as an induced subgraph has cochromatic number at most k. (The cochromatic number of G is the minimum number of stable sets and cliques with union V (G).) Assuming an old conjecture of Gyárfás and Sumner, we give a complete characterization of the finite heroic sets. This is a consequence of the fol...

Lewis-Sumner syndrome and Tangier disease.

OBJECTIVE To report unusual electrophysiologic data in a patient with Tangier disease in an effort to better understand the pathophysiologic features of the peripheral nerve lesions in this disease. DESIGN Case report. PATIENT A 15-year-old girl had subacute onset of asymmetric neuropathy with persistent conduction block, resembling Lewis-Sumner syndrome. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Electrophys...