Franklin Delano Roosevelt is renowned as the president ... Yet Roosevelt was determined to keep images of his wheelchair use out of the public eye, concerned about the impact on public opinion ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born here in 1882 ... careful to never be seen in his wheelchair in public. He served as New ...

"And in every day of his 13 years as president, Franklin Roosevelt was in a wheelchair," O'Donnell said. "The same wheelchair he was in in his two terms as governor of New York." FDR lost the ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt consistently ranks among ... FDR’s own history with polio led to him being confined to a wheelchair and contributed to his death at age 63. Based on Roosevelt’s ...