Clinton to Release Health Records
By Laura Meckler
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-Dem-ocratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will release additional medical records this week, a spokesman said Monday, after a health-related wob-ble leaving a 9/11 ceremony put her well-being into the spotlight and «animated critics' complaints about secrecy.
Press secretary Brian Fallon also said the campaign made mistakes handling the situation on Sunday, specifically by not responding to questions for 90 minutes about Mrs. Clinton's exit from the memorial event in Manhattan.
Even then, a spokesman attributed her departure to feeling overheated, when she also had pneumonia—a fact the campaign didn't disclose until late in the afternoon. Mr. Fallon   said   the   campaign
wanted the information about Mrs. Clinton's diagnosis to come from her doctor, which he said wasn't possible until she examined the candidate again later in the day.
Last year. Mrs. Clinton released a summary of her health, including the results of some medical testing. Until now, her campaign said that was sufficient and pointed out her release was more detailed than opponent Donald Trump's. But after Sunday's events, she decided to release more information, Mr. Fallon said.
On Monday, Mr. Trump also said he would put out more medical information, though his timetable wasn't clear.
Mrs. Clinton was spending Monday at home resting, the campaign said, though she planned to call into a fund-raiser in San Francisco.
Mr. Fallon said Mrs. Clinton didn't plan to change her schedule after her diagnosis of pneumonia on Friday.
That day, she attended a national-security meeting, talked to reporters and attended a fundraiser. She also participated in meetings on Saturday and didn't want to miss the 9/11 event on Sunday, he said.
"Her intention was to power through," he said. "She was full-steam ahead." He said aides had to persuade her to cancel the California trip. which was scheduled for Monday and Tuesday.
It is possible she will return to the campaign trail on Wednesday, but it wasn't clear whether she would travel to Nevada, where she has an event scheduled that day.
There were discussions about deploying her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to attend Los Angeles fund-raisers in her stead. She also had planned to appear on Ellen DeGeneres's talk show.
Mrs. Clinton, who maintained a grueling travel schedule as secretary of state and now as a presidential candidate, "continues to feel better but intends to remain at home today, following her doctor's recommendation to rest," spokesman Nick Merrill said Monday.
Mrs. Clinton's defenders pointed' to her resilience. " Towering through' illness is what women do: Stoically, every, single, day," former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm wrote on Twitter.
But former Obama adviser David Axelrod said the way that Mrs. Clinton handled the situation was a problem and fed the perception that the candidate isn't always straightforward with the public.
"Antibiotics can take care of pneumonia," he wrote on Twitter. "What's the cure for an unhealthy penchant for privacy that repeatedly creates unnecessary problems?"
The campaign didn't dis-
close until Sunday afternoon, hours after a video emerged of Mrs. Clinton stumbling as aides helped her into her van, that Mrs. Clinton has been diagnosed with pneumonia two days earlier.
Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri replied to Mr. Axelrod: "We could have done better y&ter-day, but it is a fact that public knows more about HRC than any nominee in history."
On Monday, Mr. Trump wished Mrs. Clinton a speedy recovery but also aired ques-tions about her health, citing a coughing episode during a rally earlier this month. Mrs. Clinton attributed the cough to seasonal allergies.
"I hope she gets well soon. I don't know what's going on. I'm like you, I just see what I see," Mr. Trump said on Fox News. "The coughing fit was a week ago, so I assume that was pneumonia, also. I would have to think it would have been, so something is going on, but I just hope she gets well and gets back on the trail, and well be seeing her at the debate."
The candidates are scheduled to meet on Sept. 26 in Hempstead, N.Y., for their first debate.