and Manafort's.
Of course I've always had doubts that William Casey's sudden health problems and death were just a happy coincidence for Reagan.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/07/obituaries/william-casey-ex-cia-head-is-dead-at-74.html?pagewanted=all
...Mr. Casey suffered two seizures and was hospitalized in Washington last Dec. 15, the day before he was to testify to a Senate panel about the Central Intelligence Agency's role in the sale of American arms to Iran. Surgery for Brain Tumor
He underwent surgery three days later for removal of a malignant brain tumor, and it was later reported that he had been under treatment for cancer of the prostate gland for months. After several weeks in the hospital, Mr. Casey resigned his C.I.A. post.
Dennis Connors, a vice president at the Glen Cove hospital, issued a statement yesterday saying, ''The immediate cause of death was aspiration pneumonia as a result of a central nervous system lymphoma.'' Mr. Casey was admitted to the hospital April 25.
The diagnosis of aspiration pneumonia could mean, among various possibilities, that Mr. Casey had inhaled food or food particles into his lungs that set up a toxic chemical reaction, a physician not connected with the case said yesterday. A central nervous system lymphoma is a rare tumor of the brain and central nervous system, evidently the brain tumor for which Mr. Casey had surgery late last year at Georgetown Hospital in Washington. Difficulty in Swallowing.
Much, much more about Casey's death at the link.
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