Illness In The Oval Office: Find Out What Health Conditions Made Some American Presidents’ Lives Harder

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt was a courageous man. He didn’t hesitate to run for president during the Great Depression and acted to restore public confidence. For that, he was reelected by comfortable margins in 1936, 1940, and 1944.

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However, Roosevelt suffered from a disease that left him paralyzed in both legs at the age of 39: polio. Although the Secret Service tried to hide it, the man couldn’t help the fact that he needed to rely on a wheelchair for mobility.

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