Eisenhower's Heart Attack

When delegates to the1956 Republican National Convention sang "Ike for four more years", they were celebrating the president's health as much as his political agenda. Eisenhower had suffered a heart attack less than a year before, and his campaign to seek a second term symbolized Ike's victory over a nearly fatal illness for many Americans. This, it seems, was the intended effect.
Previous Eisenhower biographers have touched on his heart condition, but Clarence Lasby is the first to examine the impact of the president's health on the nation.