Franklin Delano Roosevelt is renowned as the president ... and the concerted campaign to keep his reliance on a wheelchair out of the public eye. While vacationing in Campobello Island, New ...

In the spring of 1944, a few months before D-Day, President Franklin D ... Unable to walk from polio, FDR was lifted from the limo and placed in his wheelchair. “He immediately put up a happy ...

Eleanor became Franklin’s legs since he was primarily confined to a wheelchair. [Roosevelt did manage a kind of upright "walk" with his heavy leg braces, but the effort was never unaided and ...