Roosevelt sought relief in the therapeutic waters of Warm Springs, Georgia. He soon bought the resort and turned it into a haven for polio sufferers. The Warm Springs Foundation, which first ...

In 1921 Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio and became paralyzed in each of his extremities (although he would eventually regain the use of his arms, his legs never fully recovered). While his mother ...

FDR’s own history with polio led to him being confined to a wheelchair and contributed to his death at age 63. Based on Roosevelt’s work with the March of Dimes, he was a natural choice for ...

The concerned citizens could include a member of Roosevelt’s family, a person who suffered from polio, a historian who has written a biography of FDR, an activist who works on behalf of rights ...

An curved arrow pointing right. It is no secret now that Franklin D. Roosevelt had the unique challenge of hiding his crippling disease of what was believed to be polio throughout his terms as ...

This spring marks 73 years since the death of one of America's iconic presidents. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is renowned as the president the country through two of the greatest crises of the 20th ...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens documents your change from an old, self-centered miser to a person concerned with ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt became paralyzed after contracting polio in 1921. There have been no cases of paralytic polio ...