![]() ![]() The sheer secrecy of the event is astonishing to modern readers. Not even the vice-president knew of operation, and the truth of the affair was not confirmed until nearly 25 years later. What’s astonishing about this story is not so much the event but the unlikeliness of such a thing happening in 2011 - those who knew about Cleveland’s surgery were limited to perhaps a dozen people. Upon discovering the growth of a cancerous tumor in his mouth, the president arranged for a secret surgery to take place upon a yacht, away from prying journalists and scheming politicians. The President is a Sick Man is nominally concerned with a small, covert event that happened during Grover Cleveland’s second administration. It’s enough to make previous eras, eras when the public didn’t know every last detail about their leaders, somewhat quaint. ![]() Nothing is forgotten in the digital age, and so we have grainy videos and out-of-context statements from decades prior being used during campaigns as ammunition against the other side. In this day and age, where politicians are expected to have a presence on YouTube and Twitter as well as Capitol Hill, we’ve become accustomed to being over-saturated with meaningless news about our leaders. ![]()
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