Grover Cleveland had a cancerous tumor removed from his jaw aboard a friend's yacht in Long Island Sound while the nation was told he was on a fishing trip. The surgery was kept secret for twenty-five years because Cleveland feared the news would worsen an already devastating financial panic. A president had major cancer surgery in secret, on a boat, and the public never knew.

This episode traces Cleveland from his Buffalo political career through his two non-consecutive terms, the secret yacht surgery, the Pullman Strike, and the stubborn independence that made him the most underrated president of the Gilded Age.

• Cleveland's rise from sheriff to governor to the only president elected to two non-consecutive terms
• The secret cancer surgery aboard the yacht Oneida and the twenty-five-year cover-up
• The Panic of 1893, ...