Washington, Oct 5 (AFP/APP):Donald Trump’s shock announcement that he has coronavirus and his subsequent hospitalization has sent the US reeling. However, the 45th president is hardly the first to suffer from a major illness or even a global pandemic while in office. From George Washington to George W. Bush, here’s a roundup of the US presidency’s more memorable brushes with disease and death. Invoking the 25th The US Constitution’s 25th Amendment allows presidents to temporarily hand power to the vice president while incapacitated, a process in which one organ — the colon — has played a starring role. Former president George W. Bush invoked the 25th Amendment in 2002 and again in 2007 while being sedated for routine colonoscopies, putting then-vice president Dick Cheney in charge for hours. Although the amendment was adopted in 1967, Ronald Reagan indicated in 1985 he did not believe he officially invoked it when he left then-vice president George H.W. Bush briefly at the helm while doctors removed a cancerous polyp from the president’s colon. Reagan said the period was too “brief and temporary” for the amendment to apply. Secret yacht surgery Hoping to avoid public attention, former president Grover Cleveland covertly stowed away for … Continue reading Trump far from first US president to fall seriously ill