FDR driving

[WI_DEM]

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[limpyhobbler]

1. Is this in response to Beyonce lip-syncing?

[WI_DEM]

2. No, why?

[limpyhobbler]

3. maybe I was over thinking it.

[deurbano]

5. Did you mean how could he drive if his legs were paralyzed?

I wonder that, too. Did his cars have hand controls?

[limpyhobbler]

8. Yes.

Like maybe it was faked or something?

[LeftInTX]

9. Yes

The hand controls that allowed FDR to drive a car originated at Warm Springs, which is now the Roosevelt Institute for Rehabilitation.

[Cooley Hurd]

4. his 1937 Ford (the car that Fala's riding in) is at his Library in Hyde Park

I've actually TOUCHED it!

[jberryhill]

11. The dog or the car?

[Cooley Hurd]

13. Sadly, Fala's 6 feet under a sundial in FDR's Rose Garden now...

...so it was the car.

[LeftInTX]

6. When he was at Warm Springs during his polio rehab,

he figured out how to put hand controls in his car.

He loved driving.

He even drove King George and the Queen Mother from the White House to his mother's house in Hyde Park, NY!

He was a super awesome guy and I consider him larger than life.

[monmouth3]

10. When I was a little kid (waaay back when) I came in the house after school and found my mother

crying at the ironing board. She said that the President had died and since she was a depression child I guess it really hit home. He was quite beloved.

[arely staircase]

7. calvin coolidge wearing traditional native american war bonnet

[Historic NY]

12. He did like his phaeton body cars, so he could be seen.