September 24, 2009
Sept. 24, 1955:
President Dwight Eisenhower suffers a "moderate" heart attack following a return from a golf and fishing trip. Almost immediately, there are questions about his capacity to lead and renewed attention on Vice President Richard Nixon.
The president, three weeks shy of his 65th birthday, will recover and win a second term in 1956.
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