Oh, history... why you so fallible?

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So FDR might not have had polio after all! Interesting article, though we'll never know for sure. In the end, it wouldn't have made any difference to him, though, as is pointed out, it did make a difference to thousands of people who were afflicted by polio:

http://io9.com/5958933/franklin-dela...olio-after-all

I'm reading Traitor to His Class, a bio of FDR, and it talks about how him getting afflicted at age 40, after a youth of being very active, and then being treated at a facility in the South, in the throes of the extreme poverty there, really shaped his outlook, enabling this man to, on some level, understand the suffering of people not born to the kind of privilege he was.