The recently discovered film clip of President Franklin D. Roosevelt being pushed in a wheelchair, despite showing neither Roosevelt’s face nor the wheelchair, has become an object of considerable ...
President Roosevelt in his wheelchair on the porch at Top Cottage in Hyde Park, N.Y., with Ruthie Bie and Fala in February 1941. This photograph was taken by his friend Margaret “Daisy” Suckley.
If a president sits in a wheelchair and no one's there to photograph him, is he really paraplegic? Franklin Delano Roosevelt never explicitly denied that he'd lost the use of his legs, but he sure did ...