 As the post-war international structure of power was being decided by the big three, FDR, Churchill, and Stalin, one of the big three's health was deteriorating rapidly, Roosevelt. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, according to biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin, was reluctant to admit even to herself that Franklin was really sick. In reality, writes one scholar, Roosevelt had been gravely ill for the final five years of his presidency, but with the cooperation of personal physician Dr. Ross McIntyre,