"With both hands gripping the handles of his crutches, he could not wave ... As Tobin shows, FDR's defiant victory over polio was a measure of the man, sure. But it was just as much a crucial ...

As president, FDR made the eradication of polio his personal business ... crawling backwards up the stairs — before he reemerges to public life, in braces and crutches, at the 1924 Democratic ...

He soon learned that he had polio and would likely never ... public eye for the better part of three years, FDR could finally get around on crutches, and Howe decided the 1924 Democratic ...

Roosevelt contracted polio at the age of 39 ... to work on the way he would walk with the canes and crutches and assistance he would use. So his walk, although slow, began to look more and ...

In his new book, "The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency," Tobin ... helping him to achieve as much mobility with crutches and canes and braces as possible.

It has long been believed (wrongly) that FDR pulled a fast one on the American people, covering up the fact that he was a polio victim who depended on canes and crutches and braces and the strong ...

Roosevelt, who had been disabled by polio 14 years before ... been able to walk only with great diff.with steel braces and crutches, having to be carried up steps, in and out of cars, etc.

On how the film treats FDR's polio "Well, I have a lot of views ... He could not walk on crutches by himself. He couldn't walk with two canes, which he does in a particularly silly scene.

As president, FDR made the eradication of polio his personal business ... before he reemerges to public life, in braces and crutches, at the 1924 Democratic Convention. A generation of hard ...