The four years of research involved in writing my recent book with journalist Eric Fettmann, FDRâ??s Deadly Secret, has brought to light a new degree of insight into the mental status of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the last year of his life and takes the understanding of his thought processes at Yalta to an entirely new level.
Unequivocally, Roosevelt was suffering from frequent episodic lapses of consciousness known to neurologists as complex partial seizures. They were witnessed and reported by dozens of observers, and our book includes graphic descriptions by the likes of Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins, New York Times editor Turner Catledge and Senator Frank Maloney of Connecticut. Perhaps the most dramatic and historically important of all was only recently discovered in the Walter Trohan papers at the Herbert Hoover Library in Iowa.
A January 5, 1948 memo to the editor of the ChicagoTribune by reporter Orville â??Docâ? Dwyer reports his interview with a Doctor Louis E. Schmidt, a very close friend and confidante of Rooseveltâ??s daughter Anna (then in her second marriage to reporter John Boettinger):
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