CSPAN3 Book Discussion November 8, 2014
Part. I do not think the public realized how paralyzed he was. Physically,ility although he had a good deal of agility verbally. He was a brilliant speaker. He was a brilliant combiner of words. And most of the public never was, to use the word then in use, crippled. Pictures were not taken of him in a wheelchair. Actors were not taken of him using braces or crutches. If they were, the press was very discreet. They did not do such things back then. Today, the press would be a lot less discreet. But we are not dealing with a roosevelt that people thought they knew, but really did not know very ...