Polio pioneers' mantle passed down at symbolic location. Jan. 31, 2011— -- In the New York City double town house where President Franklin Delano Roosevelt recuperated from polio in the ...

Roosevelt contracted polio at the age of 39, and Tobin's new book explores his battle with the illness and the ways it molded his character and influenced his rise in the Democratic Party.

Franklin D. Roosevelt's triumph over disability, his ascent to the presidency, ... Roosevelt was very unlikely to get polio. Before the advent of a vaccine in the 1950s, ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt, the four-term president who directed his sweeping social policies from his wheelchair, probably suffered from Guillain-Barre syndrome rather than polio, Texas researchers ...

When polio was the most feared disease 70 years ago, ... Popular awareness of the illness, and scientific research into treating it, was supported by President Franklin D Roosevelt.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was crippled by polio at age 39, just as his political career was taking off, and the fact that he could only walk with assistance was something he wanted to ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt helped make the fight against polio a national cause. Maurice Constant / Library of Congress Prints Jan. 25, 2012, 4:18 PM EST / Source : NBC News ...

FDR and Polio. Curator Herman Eberhardt gave a tour of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum discussed the effect that polio had on FDR's life and political career.

The hotel and its sprawling grounds were a resort and care facility at once, and FDR, also a polio victim, raised money or personally picked up the tab for polio patients who could not afford the ...

In The Man He Became, historian James Tobin says, despite misimpressions to the contrary, Americans of Franklin Roosevelt's day were well-aware of his disability — it was an important part of ...