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Posted by Peter Rosa on Sun Feb 4 09:37:22 2024, in response to Re: $83 million, posted by AlM on Sun Feb 4 03:29:10 2024. I think it much more likely that doctors, not actuaries, told him his heart was unlikely to last through a second full term with the stress of the presidency.Actuaries are not professionally competent to predict any individual's actual life expectancy. They can only do averages of defined groups of people. Then again, actuaries sometimes make statements outside their professional competence, just like everyone else. No doubt the actuaries consulted with physicians. Whatever the case, the report was striking in its accuracy.It wasn't hard to predict that Johnson wouldn't live a normal life span. When serving in the Senate in 1955 he had nearly died from a heart attack despite being only in his forties. In fact, in 1960 there had been some controversy about his medical fitness to serve as Kennedy's running mate. |
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