The statue, an homage to the celebrated presidential dog Fala and created as a memorial to a beloved teacher, has been stolen ...

polio struck Franklin Delano Roosevelt at age 39, and he was subsequently elected president of the United States four times. Roosevelt sought relief in the therapeutic waters of Warm Springs ...

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, ...

His earliest memory, recalled in public speeches and in books, is of stopping at a shoe store on his way home from Warm Springs, Georgia, where Franklin D. Roosevelt — who had also been diagnosed with ...

It was the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration ... while vacationing at his summer home on Campobello Island, Roosevelt was stricken with polio. The illness paralyzed his legs and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born here in 1882 ... In 1921, Roosevelt fell ill and was diagnosed with polio. He was paralyzed from the waist down. In today’s research, it is believed that ...