One of only a few known photographs of Roosevelt in a wheelchair

Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s paralytic illness began at age 39, when he got a fever after exercising heavily during a vacation in Canada. He went sailing on the Bay of Fundy
with his three oldest children, put out a fire, jogged across Campobello Island, and
swam in Lake Glen Severn and the Bay. While his bout with the illness was well
known, it was kept from public view.

The Smithsonian Institution is an educational research institute and associated
museum complex headquartered in Washington D.C. It is administered and funded
in part by the U.S. government. The institution was established when scientist Joseph
Smithson donated $500,00.

The Smithsonian Natural History Museum

Mount Rushmore National Memorial located in South Dakota was formally dedicated
on Wednesday, August 10, 1927. At the dedication ceremony President Coolidge
gave a speech and promised federal funding for the project.

President Coolidge at the dedication ceremony of Mount Rushmore

Rex Stout chairman of the Writers’ War Board and representative of
Freedom House,

On August 9, 1942, writer Rex Stout (above) conducted the first of 62 wartime
radio broadcasts of Our Secret Weapon, produced by Freedom House and airing
on CBS. The series was created to counter shortwave radio propaganda broadcasts
during World War ll. The first first ten 15-minute programs were sponsored solely
by Freedom House, and in the eleventh week Philco became a co-sponsor. The
final broadcast was on October 8, 1943.

Series creator Sue Taylor White of Freedom House said, "Secret Weapon was
designed to whip up and excite the nation to a greater war effort — in industry
in buying war bonds, in every avenue toward victory,"