It’s a very obscure question but I did some research and it turns out that the president who led us out of the Depression and kicked Hitler’s ass was actually in a wheelchair? Who knew?
Kevin, I am not a historian, so IDK, but has there ever been a President in American History who used a mobility aid? And, if so, would you say this president who was so weak as to need, say, braces or a wheelchair, is considered to be one of the top President’s ever?
The press corps knew about it, and it doesn’t change the fact that FDR was a great president who used mobility aids, which the economist says is “no way to run a country.”
It wasn’t his handlers. He hated to be seen as disabled. It wasn’t about other people’s perceptions but rather, internalized ableism. The only people he’d let see him as disabled were the disabled people who went to his hot springs.
