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U S PREISIDENTIAL DISABILITIES AND HOW SOCIETY AND THE MEDIA REACTS

...... Todays intense media, the role of political candidates as celebrities, and technology that exists in every hand-held cell phone, camera, camcorder or other device to record and instantaneously send images and information makes it virtually impossible today for political figures, especially presidents, to hide their physical or mental impairments or disabilities from the public view. This has not always been the case, however, and as we go back in time, before the sensationalism of todays media journalists, and before the technology, we find that not only were journalists more forgiving of physical impairments suffered by former presidents, but that they actually worked with those presidents to lessen the harm that capturing such images might cause the president
The Case of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Robert E. Gilbert (1998) writes:
Historians and political scientists often describe the office of the presidency of the United States as a stressful, burdensome, debilitating position. Dorothy James refers to the office as literally a killing job whose pressures continue to mount. Milton Plesur argues that no responsible union would ever the Presidents hours for a hard hat. Richard Pious points out that always there is the burden of office which takes its toll on the