The Republican senator’s childhood bout with the disease has informed his ardent support for vaccines amid increasing ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. Polio struck future presidents and poor children alike, becoming an ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30 ... 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, ...

When a national memorial was dedicated to Franklin Roosevelt in ... citizens could include a member of Roosevelt’s family, a person who suffered from polio, a historian who has written a ...

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 ...

Some people may have thought so in 1921, but these days even a TV audience has heard that polio is caused by a virus. Troubles & Perquisite. As Roosevelt recovers and tries to learn to walk ...

Roosevelt to be his running mate ... infantile paralysis – polio. Franklin is transported first to New York City and then to his mother's home in Hyde Park to recuperate. While at Hyde Park ...

to the now-historic polio rehabilitation center. President Franklin D. Roosevelt began visiting Warm Springs back in 1924 in search of a cure for his own case of polio. In 1927, he founded The ...

In 1921, FDR contracted polio - paralyzing him from the waist ... FDR was unharmed. Franklin Delano Roosevelt went on to ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt consistently ranks among the greatest ... a nonprofit set up to fight polio. FDR’s own history with polio led to him being confined to a wheelchair and contributed ...