The Intimate Secret Life Of Franklin D. Roosevelt | The Wheelchair President

[@kenflagler635]

People talk about the presidents that should on Mt. Rushmore. Roosevelt was president during the Great Depression and WW2. And we rolled out of the 40s in better shape as a country and global superpower. My dad was born in 1920. And FDR was almost a super hero to my father.

[@E_Legal_Alien]

FDR expanded the federal government in excess, and tried packing the court to get what he wanted. Hardly a super hero.

[@shavonne4831]

Great insight Ken. There are many people in history who need more recognition!

[@mikeforte7585]

I agree

[@edmorrisonline]

I think the fact that the blueprint had been laid, in 1921 (when the blasting away of granite had begun), it was virtually impossible to change their plans during F.D.R.'s presidency (1933-1945).

[@bigbadladnamedalasad7071]

Yeah, FDR also prolonged the Great Depression, which was the main reason for the rise of the NSDAP. Not sure why people are so obsessed with this guy. Yeah sure, he turned the US into a global superpower, but is that such a good thing in hindsight?

[@ryanmarcum9044]

Anytime David Reynolds hosts, you know it’s going to be great.

[@christopherhan3347]

I hadn't realized how tough he was. Not a perfect man, but a great one. He saved America and then the world.

[@martaalvarez4859]

He was a typical politician that sacrificed many lives, jewish, British and Europeans in general for political gain. His alliance with Stalin delivered half of Europe to Communism; a great tragedy for humanity, all on his shoulders. The world will always pay for his devious politics.

[@BarringtonJames1940]

FDR created America by destroying Japan, Germany and Great Britain and then turning all three countries into puppet states of America. It was an amazing feat .

[@susanmenegus5543]

I agree 💯

[@mikeforte7585]

I agree....

[@MrKashia95]

If he died before the end of the war we be communist and eating red Herring and potatoes.😅

[@mike245401]

Thank God for my Grandmother. She tought me about FDR. He was never mentioned the whole time i was in school.

[@mildrednekesa]

His infirmity became his greatest source of power: the only thing we have to fear is FEAR itself🤷🤷🤷

[@Garbeaux.]

When I first found out he was crippled and used a wheelchair during our trip to dc, no one in my class had any idea. It was a complete shock to us. For one, people are still treated differently today when handicapped as they were then. It woke our eyes up to the fact ta crippled man could not only become POTUS, still an unbeatable record to this very day, AND win the world’s 2nd war - prob the worst ever. He truly forever changed the way people with polio and the handicapped were viewed just as everyone else.

[@billolsen4360]

We're in the 21st Century but are still electing tall men as presidents, though

[@suestephan3255]

He had the wheel chairs made from wooden high back chairs and put wheels on it. So it didn’t look like a wheelchair.

[@diegopons4622]

This guy could read Dr. Seuss books and I would still be captivated by his voice and facial expressions.

[@ZTenski]

FDR was the best leader you guys ever had, crippled but not a whiner, had the guts to do what was needed. Between him and kenedy.

[@dericmasuda]

definitely not, especially coming from an outsider, but thanks for you’re opinion.

[@thomasel9171]

​@@dericmasuda who, in your opinion, is the best?

[@dericmasuda]

@@thomasel9171 well FDR was up there i’ll give you that. but for me it’s Washington are Lincoln hands down.

[@brianblackwood3120]

I absolutely disagree as well he’s important but not the greatest by a stretch

[@michaelhearne3289]

Unscrupulous, lying, manipulative, and tried to pack the Supreme Court. Locked up our Japanese American citizens and scapegoated an Admiral and General for Pearl Harbor when he failed to prepare them for the attack. I suppose if you dont know much about FDR he may seem great. But in reality he was venial and very poor in character. A politician to the core for all the worst reasons.

[@irobott3713]

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" Phobophobia is a phobia defined as the fear of phobias, or the fear of fear,

[@hollistevens1700]

....AND, ...... ?

[@brober]

A courageous man. He lead by example and gave his life for his country. A great President.

[@gracecheri997]

A Great Great President who led us out of the Depression and led us to the Victory of D Day. Sadly he didn't live to see the end of war.

[@gracecheri997]

Also, President Roosevelt was often tied to the podium because he had became partially paralyzed from polio. Moreover, He gave Americans a sense of strength and encouragement with his fireside chats. He wanted to do more things but concentrated on these pressing matters. That is a leader ! Churchill was also outstanding.

[@gracecheri997]

@Sportacus to me He was a source of strength. I read a lot about him. My mother and father thought higly of him and admired his courage. He put personalities aside and he and Churchill worked with Stalin to end the horrible War

[@gracecheri997]

Monroe was also impressive.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

@@gracecheri997 "Putting personalities aside" could mean putting it a little too mildly what regards "Uncle Joe". He's reproached with serious crimes.

[@enrimurg4103]

David Reynolds is a great historian

[@jayonnaj18]

FDR surely had tremendous will, yet if he were living in today's world, his paralysis would not be the general public secret as it was in the days of yesteryear!

[@bobanderson9264]

Professor Snow, thanks for sharing history in a manner those young and young at heart truly enjoy…plus without knowing it…really appreciate, respect and remember!!!!

[@cathyhamlin3611]

Along with his New Deal, he was a gifted speaker

[@alanaadams7440]

New deal like socialism

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

True.

[@terry4137]

@@alanaadams7440 horrible! ND was horrible.

[@harrydeanbrown6166]

Fabulous video. FDR was and is irreplaceable. Thanks a million for the production.

[@jamesmccormick875]

You can’t talk about the success of FDR without talking about Eleanor Roosevelt. She was extremely influential on his decisions and policies.

[@ArmwrestlingJoe]

The ken burns documentary about the Roosevelt’s is awesome

[@ArmwrestlingJoe]

@John Borzecki mainly just because of how in depth and detail oriented it was. Usually with documentaries they are broad and general. Not this series.

[@ArmwrestlingJoe]

@John Borzecki the west is also fantastic

[@brodieray223]

It is really good, ken burns created an in depth master piece

[@sashaconrad3939]

Ken Burns is the best!

[@boris2997]

Ken Burns makes the best documentary

[@Voucher765]

As a New York Central fan, Franklin Roosevelt rode the railroad from his home in New Hyde Park to Manhattan via Grand Central Terminal. In fact there was a secret platform with an elevator that took his limousine to street level at the Waldorf Astoria.

[@268267264]

FDR was EVERYTHING Trump could never be. God help America... We need a few good men or Madam Clinton.

[@DMBall]

Jim Bishop's volume "FDR's Last Year" is an indispensible work of American history. It makes clear that Roosevelt's doctors knew he was a dying man as early as the spring of 1944, but kept this secret even as he ran for a fourth term as President.

[@r.solomon1239]

Godwin believes the secret was kept the full truth of it from FDR!! Awful and in violation of the medical oath of Hippocrates.

[@r.solomon1239]

And, maybe we forget or ignore, every one is dying, but we all carry on, perhaps in denial, but more for some than for others in hope, hope for work and our success. I think a doctor has sent warnings to many who proved him wrong to worry. Humphrey died a few weeks after losing his run for Veep. Carter has soldiered on after serious warnings. Nixon after phlebitis. Ike understated his serious condition. Trump got a doc to lie before running and another after election. So relax, it is and was common .

[@r.solomon1239]

Jim Bishop is fun but not scholarly.

[@sherryhannah9262]

D. M. Ball did you see the NBC made for TV movie based on the book????!!…Jason Robards played FDR I hope you will reply to this

[@DMBall]

@@sherryhannah9262 I have not seen it, but I'll look around on the internet for it.

[@BobBogaert]

This reminds me of Will Durant's account of the Roman civil war between Anthony and Octavian. "The battle of the giants was over, and an invalid had won."

[@JorgeCruz-mi5gc]

The tour of the Little White House Hotsprings, Georgia, is worth visiting. Also, I was able to check out FDR favorite spot to think and BBQ. The BBQ pit FDR had built is now sealed to protect from vandalism.

[@StanleyKewbeb1]

It wasn't a cover up. People just knew how to mind their own business. Unlike today. What's a Kardashian?

[@HappiKarafuru]

Not even a Polio could stop this man from fighting till the end.

[@industriesofintelligence2236]

Modern diagnostic tests suggest it may not have been Polio but instead Guillain-Barré syndrome

[@JohnDoe-wb4iv]

My exgirlfriend Was adopted by wealthy bankers FDR was running for president he and others locked themselves in his den FDR heard her crying and insisted she come in he put her on his lap and asked what was wrong sh e left her dolly in that room so FDR put off the meeting till her dolly was found so there were lewie Howell and others for fifteen minutes searched finally they found it and he said he would like to talk some more but had to let her go play then several months later at the movie theater

[@kellywright540]

It was said that you could have a one on one two hour long meeting with FDR - this was like in the mid 1930's - list your questions and requests and walk out of that meeting thinking that you had a new best BEST friend... Three months later, none of what you asked was acted upon and FDR didn't even remember your name. Now that is a true politician! As for his Big Three meetings, Stalin knew what FDR and Churchill had been talking about the months leading up to these and had ready made answers and strategies each time. This was do to Soviet spying from people like Donald Maclean and a leaky direct undersea "secure" line that connected FDR and Churchill. That and each of the residences that FDR and Churchill stay at during these Big Three conferences was bugged to the hilt - Beria's own son was in charge of the taping of the conversations no less! Imagine going into any type of negotiations knowing what the other side was willing to offer and reject!

[@hollistevens1700]

WOW! I HAD NOT HEARD OF DONALD MACLEAN. I WILL HAVE TO TRY TO CHECK UP ON HIM. I REALLY LIKED READING YOUR REPLY ABOUT, FDR. THANK YOU.🇺🇲🇺🇸

[@kellywright540]

@@hollistevens1700 Donald was one of the Cambridge Five. This group included Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross.

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

You should do a FDR documentary.

[@JKforUA]

​@@kellywright540there were plenty of Soviet spies in the Administration and government at that time

[@rebeccagandi5258]

Thank you Sirs you are doing well for Us who are watching to know History. Thanks very much!!!!

[@alanaadams7440]

My mother was born in 1925 and until FDR died she did not know he was crippled

[@marcelvaillancourt7776]

Apparently people knew because they sent in dimes for the March of Dimes on his birthday .... according to some historians ...

[@kateh.2327]

My parents ( born in 1914 n 1922) said they never knew... My mom contracted polio n was fine until she aged n developed post polio syndrome which caused her to be in a wheelchair... Back in the 30s n 40s I'm sure some of the general public knew but he had the respect of the press n was not photographed in a wheelchair... They had more integrity in those days... Regardless of his unfortunate circumstances he was , I believe, a great leader during a time when this Country was turned on it's head .. his " fireside chats" on radio in the depression gave people hope to keep going.... I understand he was a womanizer n frankly I don't care ... He was a charismatic, intelligent, inspiring leader when this Country needed one the most!!!

[@mikeforte7585]

@@kateh.2327 he was a great leader and great president...nobody is perfect we live in a fallen world but God gave us a great leader when this country and the world was hurting.

[@kateh.2327]

@@mikeforte7585 I do not know why you are addressing me as when you read my comments I did nothing but praise that man for saving this Country!!!!

[@mikeforte7585]

@@kateh.2327 and I agree have a great day!

[@StevenTorrey]

Roosevelt's paralysis was well known. Certainly, not well known was his appalling health going into the 4th campaign of the Presidency.

[@potcrak1]

Re-elected in November, sworn in in January, dead in April. Truman won the VP lottery and we got a new amendment to stop future FDRs.

[@StevenTorrey]

@@potcrak1 Supposing Roosevelt could NOT have run for a 3rd Term--much less a 4th Term. Can you imagine anyone else but Roosevelt prosecuting the war along with Churchill. Suppose King George VI went with his preference Lord Halifax who was an appeaser. Can you even imagine the likes of a Wendell Willkie & Lord Halifax prosecuting the war!? I don't think so!

[@potcrak1]

@@StevenTorrey Steve I couldn't tell you who FDRs first 3 VPs were let alone suppose how the war would of been prosecuted without FDR or Pearl Harbor. I do give FDR credit for staying out of the military strategy and providing needed resourses.

[@StevenTorrey]

@@potcrak1 Wendel Willkie was Republican opponent to Roosevelt in the 1940 race, what would have been his third term. It is, of course, hypothetical so impossible to really answer.

[@NicoleCzarnecki]

@@StevenTorrey , the U.S. needed someone whom was not an ableist, Anti-Semitic bigot, or any other kind of bigot. PS Anne Frank (of blessed memory) was murdered partly because FDR denied her family (of blessed memory) admission into the U.S..

[@r.solomon1239]

It was NOT kept secret, buyt simply ignored the way we ignore spectacles or false teeth today.. Every reporter knew his terrible condition. He was clearly barely able to walk with the aid of heavy leg-supports AND his son's assistance at every political campaign appearance, and when very weak in 1944-5 he was usually photographed seated in a car or chair - and even in 1941 when giving the "date that will live in infamy" he was immobile.. He was a wellknown victim of polio. What was unusual was that neither his political foes nor his journalistic critics discussed, derided, or disregarded because of his polio. And that was a vredit to journalistic media and social manners we know longer share. I was 6 when FFDR died and everyone I knew was aware of the paralysis and the politeness.

[@MyH3ntaiGirl]

Today media would rip him to pieces

[@josephhewes3923]

@@MyH3ntaiGirl Today's media would cover for him the same way they cover for all Democrat presidents. And when the Republican media would try to rip him, they'd use big tech to censor it.

[@caomhan84]

@@josephhewes3923 Today's media would HYPER FOCUS on it, like they do for every single health issue a president has. And then social media would micro-analyze every bit of video as "proof" that something was seriously wrong with him and how clearly he would be unfit for office, or somesuch nonsense. As for the Republicans ripping him, FDR wouldn't need the media to cover for him. He knew how to handle attacks back then on his own...so he would today. He handled his opponents better than probably any POTUS in history. Perhaps Reagan is the only one who came close to his skill.

[@hollistevens1700]

@@caomhan84 🌍✌🏼 THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPLY TO MR. J. HEWES. (👆🏼👆🏼up there) YOU HAVE A GREAT WAY WITH YOUR WORDS. I WANTED TO EXPRESS THE SAME WAY, BUT MY LACK OF EDUCATION WOULD NOT HAVE ALLOWED ME TO DO SO. THANK YOU. 🇺🇸

[@renaj9206]

It was called access journalism. They did it with Kennedy too. Started eroding away During Nixon and after Watergate

[@balbeersinghnagi7600]

There is no such thing as winning and losing, we define that by our own character.

[@DavidBrown-bp4iq]

Balbeer Singh Nagi. How philosophical! How...psychological! But the truth is, winning just means defeating an adversary. And winning and losing are very real events.

[@Jay-kx5cb]

​@@DavidBrown-bp4iq They really aren't when you really think about it

[@MarkTitus420]

What a man! He was paralyzed yet he fathered all those kids AND extramarital affairs. How did he do it? Whatever the case, still one of our greatest presidents.

[@lesliegoodman-malamuth9796]

FDR’s children were all born before he contracted polio. However, his physicians noted tactfully that although he’d been rendered paraplegic, he was not impotent.

[@kateh.2327]

I can recall my mother ( born 1922) n my father ( born 1914) saying they recall seeing him on TV n people were NOT aware of his inability to walk... He was always sitting or standing behind a podium holding two canes n leaning on the podium for support.... In the 30s n 40s public figures personal lives were not splashed all over the covers of tabloids!! He was protected by the press, who had a lot more in terms of ethics n integrity than the press of today...

[@bloqk16]

Being familiar with the Ken Burns TV mini-series about The Roosevelts, this video does well to distill Franklin's role in that family. I recall from many decades ago in my high school history class [US public education system] that it was an accepted view the Red Army stopped short of liberating Warsaw as a means for the Nazis to reduce the number of Polish combatants in that city. That way, when the heavy hand of Soviet influence was placed on Poland after the war, there would be few Polish rebels for the Red Army to deal with.

[@Michael_in_Vt]

One of the top 10 Presidents ever!

[@zeqirzeqiri1216]

imo Roosevelt was definitely in the top 3 best presidents of America maybe even the best

[@odemaj8605]

Its never being an easy task ,ruling USA .Either the stress and expectations kills one slowly,attempted murder,incriminating or embarrassing controversies and the desire to stand out in and out of office i.e legacy.

[@samkhani2147]

I admire him as a south east Asian people 🙏🙏🙏

[@kronovore3583]

A pack of cigarettes a day and there was always FDR's evening "Happy Hour". FDR was quite a "boozer". The inebriated president was often carried off to his bedroom by the Secret Service while he sung old college songs. FDR was a very ill man indeed. He knew it. I don't think he cared. I wonder what the world would be like to-day had FDR made it to 1946...

[@cathyhamlin3611]

With all his flaws, which all of has, he still to me was a heroic figure, who greatly helped our country out of a very dire period of history

[@kronovore3583]

@@cathyhamlin3611 Me too. I think FDR was the greatest president of the 20th Century. I hope I didn't give the impression that I was a critic.

[@frereM]

What is your source for that third sentence?

[@Gurl-5150]

He literally gave his life for America n

[@michaellin807]

He literally gave his life for America's elites.

[@josephhewes3923]

He gave his life for power. His alliance with racist southern Democrats, enabling them in their treacherous deeds, was despicable.

[@alanaadams7440]

He was the right man at the right Time

[@フランドール·スカーレット-i7v]

0:44 No, FDR actually stood up when he was giving the “Day of Infamy” speech, when he was declaring war on Japan

[@Thelanadona]

Ryan Gosling should play FDR in any upcoming biopic

[@markcary5928]

They don't make the president like this anymore. So sad...

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

I read this claim years ago, so I asked my mother, who was a young woman during the war. She said that she knew that the President was handicapped - everyone knew. So why do these people claim otherwise now?

[@annieoakley2925]

My mother said she didn't know. She was 21 in 1941.

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

@@annieoakley2925 That's odd. From Wikipedia: "Roosevelt ... avoided being seen using his wheelchair in public, but his disability was well known and became a major part of his image. In 1938, he founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, leading to the development of polio vaccines."

[@frereM]

It could be that a particular political party misrepresents this and other issues related to FDR in order to discredit him and his accomplishments.

[@lucialamprey2690]

My mother said that they knew he was paralyzed. And they didn't know it in the sense that they chose him over any question of paralysis. He was as fit as he needed to be.

[@JohnDoe-wb4iv]

The man was a saint he gave his life for his country he worked himself to death the greatest we've had thank u FDR we need u now

[@LeveretteJamesClifford1955]

My Dad, a diehard Republican, told me that Roosevelt was a great uniter at the right time and place.

[@adama7752]

Tell that to the japanese in internment camps

[@NicoleCzarnecki]

Your father has no idea for starters how much Jewish blood FDR had on his hands-and had FDR never been an accomplice to the Nazis, some of my own relatives may well have never had to endure what they endured (and one was a Holocaust victim kidnapped from his home and murdered by hanging, and another was one of his children-a Holocaust survivor whom never made it to 54, let alone 60 and 70. Had FDR never been an accomplice of the Nazis and Stalin, both of the specified relatives may have been alive well into each of their 80s and 90s.).

[@yao052]

@@adama7752 ooh shut up.

[@LeveretteJamesClifford1955]

@@adama7752 The German population in America in WW1 was treated the same way. It was normal among minorities who represented an ancestry with the foes of any nation. I notice the Japanese did that to Americans, British, Dutch, Australians who could not evacuate before the Japanese took control of an area. I am glad you called the Japanese American camps as internment camps rather than Concentration Camps like Frank Zappa did in the mid 60s.

[@terry4137]

My grandmother knew he was crippled (the very words she used)from polio. She was born 1899. Other relations did not believe her.🙄

[@sandrabentley8111]

FDR: "We must abandon once and for all, the illusion that we can isolate ourselves from the rest of humanity". Trump never understood this concept and was leading us back to isolationism. Thank God he never won a second term.

[@venessahendricks8019]

Sadly the incumbent is doing the same, as many of America's allies are now turning their backs on America. Merkel and Macron are shifting focus to Putin especially in the regards to energy. Israel is already miffed by the FP of today. Japan is now turning to India. The UK is now to, also via Brexit turning inwards and not to the US. Not even Iran and China has time for the US. American isolationism is now more worse under the incumbent than the prior. Trump was a jackass but his FP was reaching. Unfortunately things have gotten worse now concerning FP. Looking from the outside in, you'll see a different picture

[@wyattmcgee1]

In this regard, Roosevelt was absolutely wrong. Interventionism has gotten America nothing but trouble. 50,000 dead in Korea. 60,000 dead in Vietnam. 3,000 dead in the Middle East. Tens of trillions of taxpayer money wasted. We need to leave the UN, NATO, the World Bank, ect. We also need to remove all military bases on foreign soil and leave the forebears to sign their own battles.

[@DavidBrown-bp4iq]

@@wyattmcgee1 But you left out one important fact. War stimulates economies and technological advancements. Fighting an enemy is a great stimulator.

[@sandrabentley8111]

@Unreconstructed Klansman no, he'll never return, thank God.

[@GavinsMarineMom]

Excellent documentary. I would love to see a documentary like this focused on Yalta. Churchill was right.

[@paulad.patterson4732]

My grandfather was a White House guard for FDR.

[@michelleayres5608]

My grandmother loved FDR. I came very close to being named "Velarose". I don't think my grandma knew he had polio.

[@lestermount3287]

I have spoken to many elderly including relatives who hated FDR, especially for stealing farm products and then destroying them to supposedly increase the price instead of feeding those that were starving. then we can talk about his many Un Constitutional acts and programs along with putting American citizens in prison camps without due process.

[@rogerhackler223]

Your grandmother hated TR, because she had bad values 😒🙄!

[@adama7752]

I take it she wasn't japanese

[@yao052]

@@adama7752 go and troll elsewhere.

[@ajmari9585]

@@lestermount3287 did those old relatives have any theory for why he kept getting reelected then?

[@spookerredmenace3950]

back then the press showed more respect for the President ,

[@michaellin807]

Back then it was easier to tell fake news.

[@KRN762]

You mean "covered up for"

[@spookerredmenace3950]

@Lone Wolf well that as well

[@michaellin807]

@@KRN762 "Respect", is a "respectful" way of saying: "fear".

[@NoahSpurrier]

Respect is not something you deserve; it is something you earn.

[@durango8882]

Ethical journalism!

[@jamespriest7328]

He also locked up the Japanese even after being told they wasnt a threat, made the depression worse and making last longer. Took huge amounts of power from the people and put it into the hands of one man and making a administrative state possible.

[@jamespriest7328]

@David lol yeah. 🤣

[@jamespriest7328]

@Uncle Philly true. So so true Just like if they keep power their do again.

[@zillsburyy1]

this commie of a president and all his social programs

[@hashiahmed2381]

Solved the great depression greatest president ever

[@ARod-br2ui]

Mussolini was his idol.

[@cherylcallahan5402]

Time-Line World History Documantries host: David Reynolds President Franklin Roosevelt Listening from Mass USA TYVM 💙 David

[@tangoblue]

People knew FDR couldn’t really walk. Besides his gentleman’s agreement with the press, disability just wasn’t something that was discussed openly in polite society. FDR was a major paternal figure to much of the United States and no one really wants to talk about the weaknesses and mortality of those peopke in their lives.

[@user-sh2tk7we9h]

Having seen this documentary, FDR was buying time and delayed decisions as far as he could. Bad for democracy and good for dictators of that period. Sad.

[@3dartistguy]

He did NOT want to be seen in wheelchair. Why cant anyone just accept that?

[@TheMasterTeddy]

If Roosevelt lived a little bit longer he would have created a public health care system in his second New Deal.

[@thomast3570]

Same resistance there.

[@andreasleonardo6793]

Nice historic video from excellent historical channel about US president Franklin roosevelt video clearly explaining existence of US abilities in the whole capabilities of allies capabilities against axis aggression capability thanks for sharing

[@doreekaplan2589]

My older brother also contracted polio Resulted in one calf being really small.....

[@bigk8210]

Visit Warm Springs, GA and you will learn the empathy the man had dealing with other patients, young and old, stricken with paralysis.

[@johnnygonzalez6199]

My dad always said he was good president mydad fought in ww2

[@billolsen4360]

FDR was a great war leader, especially when you consider how unprepared we were in 1941. My dad fought in WW2 also and he was glad that FDR kept Patton in the field since his battle methods kept his troops advancing at every possible opportunity, rather than being left was sitting ducks for the enemy to mow down with rifle & artillery fire.

[@TenaciousSLG]

Anybody know where to find part 2?

[@mildrednekesa]

20-30 cigarettes a day🤦🤦🤦

[@r.solomon1239]

And cocktails and liquor. Godwin says. Normal for the period, dangerous for his health.

[@alanaadams7440]

FDR should have had a cardiologist

[@SandfordSmythe]

I don't think much help for his problems existed then.

[@doreekaplan2589]

Great man. Except for the live in mistress which seems so disrespectful to his entire family. She is a heroine of mine. Funny his mom threatened to disinherit him if he divorced. What about todays queen doing so....haha not my call. My brother in the fifties like many other kids had polio but it only withered one leg fortunately. He is the poster child for invalids to this day.... handicapped people are capable. Dressing him in girls clothes was common then. My Dad passed recently at ninty six and as the baby of the family also wore girls dresses and long curls. Later on his own he was a soldier in ww2 so the childhood stuff didnt make any difference. As a teenager I heard his Mom call him my baby. ....haha each to their own. Kennedy had his own physical affliction that he also managed to hide from the world. Its a wonder he never overdosed on the myriad of medications to kill pain. Elliot wrote great mysteries with his mom as protagonist

[@daylinlott5723]

People knew. They didnt care. They were trying to recover from the GD, and defeat fascism. And Americans are not as superficial as the world thinks. My grandmother told me, when I sat at her knee, that FDR was "a cripple," but the greatest president we ever had. He was great because he gave people like my ancestors something better. My grandpa worked for Roosevelt's CCC. His story is one of a triumph of spirit over material.

[@ariesista]

I there a part 2 coming?

[@Adrian-zd4cs]

This was such a strange narration of a usually intriguing topic.

[@paulad.patterson4732]

He wasn't the only son, he had an older half brother.

[@davidhickey1972]

EXCELLENT

[@annfarnell1642]

The assumption is that FDR didn’t ask questions about his health because he didn’t want to know the truth. Why not assume that after years of gaging his own health, he didn’t ask because he knew and in that knowledge had set-his course to “ sail on” as long as he could.

[@SafetySpooon]

It is untrue that the press was "discreet"; his bodyguards smashed cameras & threatened reporters.

[@chuckschafer942]

SECRET SERVICE

[@elijahhodges4405]

Woodrow Wilson, and FDR with their desire for a world government had no idea what that would cause.

[@alankwak9652]

We ohh that might have had an idea....

[@KK-pq6lu]

Pretty easy for FDR to hide things from the American people, with a complicit media bent on bringing to America socialism and empowering NY Financial overlords. Heck, they even removed Liberty from the dime to hail their victory.

[@r.solomon1239]

We have no "world government" and never have have. It was in FDR's dream to be a huge anti-war alliance. We never got that either.

[@DavidBrown-bp4iq]

@@r.solomon1239 What "we have" is a hidden government about which we can do exactly nothing. FDR himself commented on it, as did Woodrow Wilson, Benjamin Disraeli and God knows who else. The list is long of those who obeyed the hidden owners of the planet.

[@r.solomon1239]

@@DavidBrown-bp4iq Définitions change. Wilson, FDR probably lived a bit differently, saw things differently, and criticized differently. So there is almost no equivalence as the reactionary media and Trump cultists do. As to other users from different eras and political perspectives the objects of their remarks must have been different, too.

[@SunnyIlha]

He was a tough Dude, man.

[@antoniogonzales423]

@ Anthony Politics is both good and evil. Period.

[@russellburgan9023]

No Franklin didn't admire Eleanor, he admired money, that's why he stayed with her remember. Seems like his polio was a bit like a curse for his adultery. God has a way of doing that to His ppl, especially those in high positions. Despite his health issues, and social issues, he brought the world thru a very trying era. I hope he got the rest he needed.

[@Т1000-м1и]

A bit vague on what he actually did in WW2 but otherwise incredible

[@DGRVP]

We're are eternally grateful to FDR for pressing Churchill to leave India...whatever happened during those crucial years, for the US nd the world, it does seem to be providence...

[@JohnDoe-wb4iv]

She saw him taking his first inaugeration she exclaimed there's my friend what a guy God rest his soul I would have no income as I rely on social security love him

[@wenthulk8439]

FDR was a far from perfect man............. I don't blame his wife for her behavior towards him afterwards.

[@ryangibson2831]

But a perfect man for a perfect time. He play the international game well and everyone I know was positvily affected by him.

[@wenthulk8439]

@@ryangibson2831 True.

[@cindysue5474]

@@ryangibson2831 Yeah but if you owned gold you had to turn it in or face a heavy fine or jail no thanks.

[@rogerhackler223]

@@cindysue5474 you love TR, he never would do that!

[@erikdavies2572]

Your priorities are seriously screwed-up if that's your one takeaway from this, or what matters to you above all else. Don't expect to secure much sympathy from everyone about all your gold and what might have happened to it back then.

[@HORSEYANIME2024]

Pls do a video on the. Great Depression

[@guylaurie819]

"Amid the catastrophe of WWII", they then show footage of a helicopter in combat. A time traveller?

[@spookerredmenace3950]

helicopters started service ww2 in 1944-45, but they had been around since 1940 or so

[@elhistoriero1227]

@@spookerredmenace3950 But they weren't used extensively. Modern helicopters were only used for rescue missions in Burma from 1944 to 1945.

[@spookerredmenace3950]

@@elhistoriero1227 true, they were used only in the Japan campaigns

[@guylaurie819]

@@spookerredmenace3950 That helicopter you see there is a modern one dating back at most to the late 60's.

[@isaacfairburne9981]

It's just used as a transition.

[@rayoeler3055]

looking back at history the man firmly believed in OUR country ! Despite the war Americas future was within his grasp ! Most presidents have never had the poise of this man since ! That is Republicans and Democrats ! All you do look in his eyes and see but Eleanor kept him straight ! I firmly believe the two worked for the betterment of every man and woman today

[@jeaniusedits6094]

He was a really good hidder ngl

[@catman8965]

To bad he didn't see the end of the war.

[@adama7752]

Too bad he didn't see the end of his internment camps

[@rodrigomarroquin353]

Great

[@MLeibs]

Dang! Frankie and Lucy really did Eleanor dirty. Her husband and her personal secretary (her work BFF). Smh 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@r.solomon1239]

Eleanor may have had several or just one lover, a not-very sweet woman who stayed in the WHouse for a long time. People seek love. See Doris Kearns Goodwin's books on FDR. Eleanor discovered FDR's love letters to Lucy, who was gorgeous and bright, long before his election in '32. Toughened by this, Eleanor confronted him then - oy, but stuck by him. What a pair of women. What a marriage. We seek love in myriad ways.

[@MLeibs]

@@r.solomon1239 thanks!

[@Peteripattaya]

Winston askef for FDRS help, and it came 18 momths aftet. Lend Lesase started in march 1941. As far as im concerned, Rosevelt werent our friends.

[@SandfordSmythe]

FDR was limited by Congress and would have like to have done much more. His Lend-Lease already tested the boundaries of his authority.

[@xaviertudu1005]

such a dignified press kept his secrets

[@JoshuaTDillard]

My honor, sir

[@Katwoman4318]

Glow he did. Thank you FDR ♥️🤍💙

[@annettekleynhans7956]

Will nor get another cent....... the “death sentence “ for quite a few relationships,

[@castlerock58]

Where is part 2?

[@Albertanator]

FDR was absolutely naive when it came to Stalin....sadly so.....

[@Christ0pherWade]

25:30

[@markthrasher6770]

He simply would not be able to do it today....

[@Gods2ndFavoriteBassPlyr]

No one would be able to.

[@Survivor-mf1nm]

President FDR had Guillain-Barre Syndrome; not Polio.

[@alanaadams7440]

I think he also had rheumatic fever thus heart damage

[@paul-we2gf]

FDR managed to pull America out of the depression. But his taking a 4th term was a term too far. Of the 3 leaders at Yalta FDR died first then Stslin in 1953 then Chutchill in 1965. He was the eldest.

[@mackenzierotureau8696]

Because we were busy with war.