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William H. Helfand, Jan Lazarus and Paul Theerman

William H. Helfand is a consultant based in New York, NY. Jan Lazarus and Paul Theerman are with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Paul Theerman, Head, Non-Book Collections, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 (e-mail: paul_theerman@nlm.nih.gov).

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STRICKEN WITH POLIO IN 1921 at the age of 39, Franklin Delano Roosevelt put his remarkable political skills to work on behalf of other polio victims to develop a rehabilitation center in Warm Springs, Georgia. In 1928, the demands of his campaign to become governor of New York led him to transfer leadership of the rehabilitation center development to his law partner, Basil O'Connor. O'Connor made Warm Springs a nonprofit foundation, created the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, and used the prestige of the Roosevelt name and position in his fund-raising efforts. At first, these projects depended on charitable gifts . . . [Full Text]

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