Rare Footage of FDR Walking With Leg Braces FDR contracted polio at the age of 39, which left his legs partially paralyzed. Fearing this would impact his bid for presidency, he came to an ...

and for the first time in public he makes reference to the braces without which he could not stand. On March 30, 1945 Franklin Roosevelt travels to Warm Springs to relax and, as he told Daisy ...