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Long before Hillary Clinton’s pneumonia or Donald J. Trump’s bizarre doctor’s note, there was a history of voters demanding candidates’ medical records. We get some perspective from John Dickerson, a history buff, columnist at Slate and moderator of Moderator of CBS’s “Face the Nation,” and Lawrence K. Altman, a former reporter at The New York Times who was the first to interview candidates about their medical histories.

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