1. Lake Charles: 1908-1926
2. Tulane University 1926-35
3. Strasbourg, Heidelberg and New Orleans 1935-1942
4. Washington, D.C. and New Orleans 1942-48
5. Houston 1948-1951
6. Houston 1951-1956
7. Houston 1956-1960
8. Houston 1960-1969
9. Houston 1969 The Artificial Heart
10. Houston 1970-1989
11. Houston 1990-2008
12. Epilogue
"Lake Charles: 1908-1926 Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. September 23, 1996 KLM Flight 287 rolled to a seamless stop on the tarmac, and settled on its wheels under the translucent Moscow sky. A contingent of American heart surgeons and support staff blinked and stretched. Their leader was famous for dozing off as soon as the wheels were up on any flight of length, and more than one of his retinue had mimicked that feat on this last leg of their journey from Houston via Amsterdam. This was not the first sojourn to Russia for their Chief - that had been back in 1958, when the country had another name and quite another polity. Many other visits had followed, accompanied by accolades and fetes, mostly with a Cold War political undertone he neither shared nor acknowledged. By nature he was fond of reflecting on change and history, and he did not miss the significance of returning to this place, the both of them now so different, in a position to alter the life path of a man who, himself, was responsible for much of this country's metamorphosis. The President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, was suffering from congestive heart failure and severe coronary artery disease...
