| More than 100 years ago,
President Grover Cleveland discovered a cancerous growth
on his upper jaw. In 1893, the country was in the middle
of an international monetary crisis. To prevent his
illness from causing further panic, Cleveland arranged
for doctors to operate on him in secret, aboard a pleasure
boat in the middle of New York's East River. The public
thought he was on a fishing trip. The truth finally
came out in 1917, nine years after Cleveland's death. |
|
 |
