Nathaniel H. STEWART, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

GEORGE CLIFTON EDWARDS, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Claimant Nathaniel Stewart appeals from a judgment entered by a District Judge in the Eastern District of Tennessee affirming the denial of social security benefits. Stewart is now 61 years old. The disability which Stewart alleges has prevented him from continuing his previous occupation as an insurance salesman developed in 1980 when he suffered a heart attack. He underwent a four-way coronary by-pass surgical operation on November 6, 1980. He testified that his subsequent efforts to return to work were frustrated by extreme blood pressure…