The following lines are from an article about the role of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- himself disabled by polio -- in helping to conquer this scourge.
The remainder of this article, published on April 12, 2020 (the anniversary of Roosevelt's death), is in the website below. It is well worth reading and considering!
"No president can end an epidemic single handedly, but they can inspire a popular movement that eradicates a disease. Such was the case with Franklin Roosevelt and polio.
Seventy-five years ago, on April 12, 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died at the “Little White House” in Warm Springs, Georgia. His administration’s achievements, such as Social Security and unemployment relief, are woven into the fabric of American government. Pundits still measure new presidents against FDR’s First Hundred Days, and present-day politicians slap the “New Deal” label on ambitious agendas. Donald Trump, like FDR a wealthy New Yorker presiding over turbulent economic times, has recently cast himself as a “wartime president” in his predecessor’s mold."
Read the remainder of this History News Network article here:
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174983
