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TIME magazine online “What it Will Take To End Polio”

TIME magazine online “What it Will Take To End Polio”Oct 2, 2014

Franklin Roosevelt never knew the Pakistani babies battling polio today, but he knew their pain. The world is fighting to end that suffering forever

You can still see the ramps and rails at Franklin Roosevelt’s house on East 65th Street in Manhattan—even though they’ve been gone for decades. They’re easily visible in the pictures that decorate the home. They’re visible, too, in the popular iconography of Roosevelt, who was photographed standing countless times after being paralyzed by polio in 1921, but always with a hand on a railing, an arm on an aide, a cane in his grip—and ramps and rails at the ready.

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