HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
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His wife was from Savannah
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He traveled there because of his illness
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He was born in Atlanta
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He hid there during World War II because it was safer
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Detailed explanation-1: -Roosevelt at the Little White House. In 1924, three years after Roosevelt contracted polio, he began visiting Warm Springs in Georgia. The springs were thought to be beneficial for polio victims. Roosevelt, who became the U.S. president in 1932, is pictured in front of the Little White House in Warm Springs.
Detailed explanation-2: -As the war drew to a close, Roosevelt’s health deteriorated, and on April 12, 1945, while at Warm Springs, Georgia, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Learn more about Franklin D. Roosevelt’s spouse, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.
Detailed explanation-3: -Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States. Not only did he serve an unprecedented four terms in office, but he was also the first president with a significant physical disability. FDR was diagnosed with infantile paralysis, better known as polio, in 1921, at the age of 39.
Detailed explanation-4: -Visitors can tour FDR’s home, which has been carefully preserved very much as he left it, the servants and guest quarters, and the nearby pools complex that first brought the future president to Warm Springs. Selected as a “Readers Choice” site in Georgia Magazine nine times.