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What is the modern view on the "gentleman's agreement" between the presidency & the media that kept, for example, Wilson's stroke, Roosevelt's reliance on a wheelchair, and Kennedy's infidelity, under wraps?

by /u/TheEmperorsNewHose in /r/AskHistorians

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