President Obama's busted lip from an errant elbow during a recent basketball game was just the latest scrape suffered by a commander in chief. President Gerald Ford was notorious for his slips and trips, once taking a tumble down the steps off Air Force One in 1975 in Salzburg, Austria. There was also President George H.W. Bush's embarrassing food sickness incident in 1992 in Japan, caught caught on camera vomiting on the Prime Minster of Japan's lap.
President Zachary Taylor was less fortunate, dying in office from what was likely Salmonella poisoning. This week, a look at the bug that poisoned a President.
TTFN, Fred.
Quote of the week: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust (French novelist, critic, and essayist, 1871 – 1922)
The Bug That Poisoned the President
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