Roosevelt’s limousine arrived at Bethesda Naval Hospital — the same medical complex President Trump was taken to Friday after being diagnosed with the coronavirus. Unable to walk from polio ...

One visit occurred nine days before another polio victim, Franklin D. Roosevelt, died there of a cerebral hemorrhage. Steel ...

Historian Jonathan Darman argues in his new book, Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis that Made a President, that polio changed his outlook forever. It happened in two ways. First, it made him ...

Many Americans know that Franklin Roosevelt has polio, but the extent of his disability is minimized, with his movements in and out of buildings, cars and crowds carefully controlled – and ...

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 ...

Tobin, author of books about the Wright brothers and Ernie Pyle, presents a detailed, insightful history of FDR’s battle with polio, interwoven with an account of the a history of the disease, its ...

According to the CoinValueChecker website, one of the charities that was dearest to his heart was the March of Dimes, a nonprofit set up to fight polio. FDR’s own history with polio led to him ...

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 ...

In 2022, while running to be Ohio’s senator, JD Vance denounced Mitch McConnell, who did not care: Vance’s narrow victory was ...