Poor old Abraham Lincoln - he can’t catch a break!

Abe is one of my favorite presidents, right up there with John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton. It seems that others like Abe as much as I do, and some are even, dare I say - obsessed. This morning I read a feature in my newspaper speculating on whether or not poor Mr. Lincoln, if shot today, would survive. (Chances are that he would, but the bullet would remain in his brain to avoid further injury.) And just yesterday I read a piece on Yahoo about Abe’s lopsided face, which was recently confirmed using plaster masks of his face. What do you expect - he was kicked in the head by a horse as a kid!

I’ve heard other speculation about Abe through the years. Some think he possibly had Marfan’s, he definitely had smallpox, he was supposedly depressed, and had a heart condition.

It makes me wonder…150 years from now, will we be speculating what veneral diseaes JFK and Bill Clinton had?