The correct answer is A) He made those who came to see him feel good. C) He refused to "allow bodily disability to defeat his will." D) He exercised to strengthen his body.
The true statements about Franklin Roosevelt's experience with polio are the following: He made those who came to see him feel good, he refused to "allow bodily disability to defeat his will," and he exercised to strengthen his body.
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio in 1921. He only had 39 years old. He was paralyzed permanently from the waist down. He started to take hydrotherapy in the state of Georgia and in 1938 he decided to found the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. President Roosevelt died in 1945.
