The heart of power: health and politics in the Oval Office

Franklin Delano Roosevelt : the enigmatic angler

Harry S. Truman : we'll take the starch out of them; eventually

Dwight D. Eisenhower : compassionate conservative

John F. Kennedy : the charismatic with a stricken father

Lyndon B. Johnson : the secret history of Medicare

Richard Nixon : a flower that bloomed only in the dark

Jimmy Carter : the righteous engineer

Ronald Reagan : socialized medicine and the working stiff

George Herbert Walker Bush : stick to the running game

Bill Clinton : kicking the can down the road

George W. Bush : bring it on : reforming Medicare.