Paul Sparrow, director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, in Hyde Park, N.Y., said: “I think polio changed FDR. I think polio changed America. I think FDR’s reaction ...

Tobin tells Fresh Air's Dave Davies, "[Roosevelt] only discovered who he really was through the ordeal of polio. ... It gave him a kind of confidence in his own strength that perhaps no one can ...

Did FDR Have Polio? Roosevelt visited a Boy Scout Camp two weeks before onset of his paralysis. Roosevelt’s presence at this gathering played a major role in his diagnosis, because the gathering ...

It was the last time he would ever stand unassisted again. Roosevelt’s polio, which struck him down just as his political star was rising, was supposed to be the end of him. The fact that it ...

Treatments for polio included hot wool and physical therapy. Early on, some doctors would put patients in full-body casts, which could make paralysis permanent. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was ...

Roosevelt's Polio Wasn't A Secret: He Used It To His 'Advantage' Americans remember Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the president who led the country through the Great Depression and World War II.