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From Grover Cleveland to John F. Kennedy and Donald Trump, examples abound of presidential maladies being minimized or kept secret.

Grover Cleveland underwent surgery for oral cancer on a yacht in New York Harbor to keep his condition from being widely known.

This can only be confounding to old-line anti-government crusaders such as Grover Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform, who said years ago, to widespread conservative acclaim, “I don’t want to abolish government. I want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

This can only be confounding to old-line anti-government crusaders such as Grover Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform, who said years ago, to widespread conservative acclaim, "I don't want to abolish government. I want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."

If it does happen, though, we’d be watching the downfall of another major Reagan-era institution in Washington: Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, who has long enforced a “pledge” by Republican lawmakers to vote against any tax increases.