Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States, died on April 12, 1945 in Warm Springs, Georgia, of a cerebral hemorrhage resulting from hypertension. As related by his attending cardiologist, Howard G. Bruenn, his blood pressure on the day of his death was 300/190 mm Hg. The President had suffered from hypertension since 1935. Bruenn ends his article written in 1970, “I have often wondered what a turn the subsequent causes of history may have taken if the modern methods of the control of hypertension had been available.” Since Roosevelt’s death, treatment of hypertension has been spectacular...