a humorous
reference to
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), thirty-
second president of the United
States (1933 - 1945). In the summer of 1921 he was stricken with infantile
paralysis, which
left him paralyzed from the waist down. With the aid of treatments, he was finally able to
walk with the support of
steel braces strapped from his
hips to his feet.
humorous
reference to
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In the summer of 1921 he was stricken with infantile
paralysis, which
left him paralyzed from the waist down. With the aid of treatments, he was finally able to
walk with the support of
steel braces strapped from his
hips to his feet. See also
Roosevelt,
Franklin Delano in this glossary.
humorous
reference to
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, thirty-
second president of the United
States (1933 - 1945). In the summer of 1921 he was stricken with infantile
paralysis, which
left him paralyzed from the waist down. With the aid of treatments, he was finally able to
walk with the support of
steel braces strapped from his
hips to his feet.
humorous
reference to
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945),
Democratic political
leader and thirty-
second president of the United
States (1933-1945).
Roosevelt wore braces to aid him in
walking due to being
crippled by
polio in the early 1920s. See also
Casablanca in this glossary. And
Frankie the Limper-pardon me,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt-never
read Clausewitz