FDR had said he didn't want people to remember him in a wheelchair and didn't want his statue like that. The builders thought it would be good to let citizens know that people with disabilities can still make good leaders.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
No, Theodore Roosevelt was the one who studied Judo. Franklin Roosevelt was in a wheelchair.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
About 24 years.
Yes. He was in a wheelchair because of polio.
no it was not made till after he died
he had a wheelchair
A wheelchair
because he needed one
He had had polio, a crippling and killing disease, when he was young.
Roosevelt had polio at some point in his adult life and was confined to a wheelchair
Franklin D. Roosevelt This was because he contracted polio.