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With the help of his family, staff, and the press, Roosevelt often tried to hide his disability from the public. Many photographs depict Roosevelt draped in a blanket or cloak, which hid his wheelchair. As president, Roosevelt supported research in the treatment of polio.

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10y ago

FDR was in a wheelchair because he had contracted polio in 1921 while a young man, a disease disabling him so that he couldn't move his legs. He could stand to give speeches, so he was able to hide his condition from the general public. He found that swimming in the warm water at Warm Springs, GA helped him so had bought the "Little White House" there. He had a car made with hand controls for the clutch and brakes, so he could drive around in Warm Springs.

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13y ago

Teddy Roosevelt WASN'T in a wheel chair. His 5th cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt was because he had a disease called polio that kinda paralyzed him. Now not completely because whenever he made a speech he would still stand (the public didn't know he had polio) and he could kinda walk with crutches.

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12y ago

because he injured his butt drinking soup.

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14y ago

He wasn't. Franklin Delano Roosevelt used a wheelchair, because he suffered from polio which meant he was unable to walk.

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15y ago

No. Franklin Roosevelt was in a wheelchair from polio.

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10y ago

Theodore Roosevelt did not use a wheelchair, except perhaps temporalily later in life. Franklin Roosevelt is the President who was crippled by polio and used a wheelchair thereafter.

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He was paralyzed from the waist down.

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11y ago

polio

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