re: #182 Dark_Falcon

Dying in 30 days is what makes him a failure. Also that he made himself sick by nutty things like attending his inauguration on a cold day without a coat.

Actually, he didn’t make himself sick in the inaugural. That was merely the conventional wisdom of the time.

He didn’t actually get sick until about three weeks later. It just happened that his busy schedule as POTUS and his lack of privacy gave him no time to rest at all, and all the quack “medicine” his doctors tried (leeches, opium, snakeweed, castor oil, etc.) made things worse and he died nine days later.