Presidential Fitness Quotes
Although the Jacksonian Democrats were the political successors to the Jeffersonian Democratic Republicans, Jefferson found Jackson wanting as a potential president. Although Jefferson had made this statement during the 1824 Election, it did not become public until the Election of 1828 — Jackson’s second term. At that time Edward Coles, Formerly James Madison’s Secretary, disclosed the quotation.
In response to a newspaper editor who told Jackson some of his friends advocated him for the Presidency:
4 years later Roosevelt was so disgusted with Taft that he ran against him in the Republican Primary and the General Election where he polled more votes than Taft but they both lost to Woodrow Wilson when the Republican vote was split.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, it is claimed by some right wing conservatives was very ill at the famed 1945 Yalta Conference with Churchill and Stalin. They argue that he gave Stalin too much as he was too ill to stand up to Stalin. Their myth is that “The Soviets got Eastern Europe because FDR was sick.” However Churchill was in fine physical shape and he and Roosevelt had worked out a style of dealing with Stalin where Churchill was the aggressive one and Roosevelt was the nice guy. The President’s physician did not observe any deterioration however—see 643318—and viewed FDR as behaving normally, Lord Moran, not as familiar with Roosevelt, made this famous statement which is used by those arguing that FDR was impaired as their main source of evidence other than the result.
