Editor’s Note: In 1921 when Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) was 39 years old he contracted polio, a viral disease that causes paralysis. Paralyzed from the waist down, he never regained use of his legs. In 1932, FDR was elected to his first term as president. The nation was in the depths of the Great Depression,…

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