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 ...

No one could escape the ghost of polio. World War II and the Great Depression saw the United States succeed under the leadership of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. How do we commemorate FDR today?

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 ...