During his employment, he unfortunately contracted polio in 1956 ... although the disease also affected younger adults. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who became president of the United States ...

In 1921 he had contracted polio (a spinal disease), which had left him permanently paralysed from the waist down. Some of the voters believed that Roosevelt’s ability to overcome personal ...

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 ...