Presidential Photos
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Description
President Franklin Roosevelt sitting at his worktable before the fireplace at his retreat in Warm Springs, Ga. Here we see President Roosevelt at his most human: careworn by the Depression and the war, and with his leg, paralyzed by childhood polio, clearly braced. Americans did not see images of the president with his disability in any way evident. Margaret Lynch Suckley, or "Daisy" as Mr. Roosevelt fondly called her, was a distant cousin and the president's closest companion during his final years. Thus, she had access to his private moments that no press photographer could gain. (Photo taken between March 30 and April 12, 1945)
Photo Credit
Margaret Suckley. National Archives, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library