The Correspondents' Dinner as a health check for the president
In 1945, a prominent reporter sat a Johns Hopkins physician just below Roosevelt to take stock of the ailing president. It would be one of FDR's last public events.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, seated, shakes hands with Raymond P. Brandt, chief of the Washington bureau of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on March 22, 1945. (AP Photo/Gil Friedberg)
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