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15 pages in length. There are myriad personal and professional assets that lend themselves to a successful president; among them are integrity, sound judgment, compassion and executive ability. Conspicuously absent from the long list of characteristics is the element of physical disability, an absence one can surmise exists because it has absolutely nothing to do with the competency to lead a country. However, Franklin Delano Roosevelt understood the nature of his lameness and what it could very well mean for his political career if he did not take great strides to minimize the obvious, inasmuch as the nation was not progressive enough at this point in time to accept a president whose physical health was anything less than one-hundred percent – even if it had absolutely no impact upon his leadership prowess. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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of characteristics is the element of physical disability, an absence one can surmise exists because it has absolutely nothing to do with the competency to lead a country. However,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt understood the nature of his lameness and what it could very well mean for his political career if he did not take great strides to minimize the
obvious, inasmuch as the nation was not progressive enough at this point in time to accept a president whose physical health was anything less than one-hundred percent - even if
it had absolutely no impact upon his leadership prowess. II. POLIO The legacy FDR left behind the day he died in 1945 was not only "the greatest leader of
democracy, the greatest champion of social progress in the 20th century" (Berlin, 1981, p. PG), but also that of a master of camouflage; few people truly had any understanding of
disabled he was and how smoothly he ran the presidency in spite of it. Clearly, his eventual paralysis was not an issue to FDR himself, yet he realized the
extent to which the American public might think otherwise; as such, he devised a way to hide his disability at virtually every turn of both his campaign and presidency so
that the vast majority of his adoring constituency had no idea how severe his condition actually was. "It is ironic that FDR, the most famous disabled person of the
century, had to conceal his disability" (Anonymous #2, 2002). The beginning of the end for FDRs physical mobility came in August of 1921 while at his Campobello Island summer home.
After a day of swimming and other physical activity, he retired for the night only to awaken the next morning with a fever of 102 degrees. Coupled with
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