A STATUARY Franklin D. Roosevelt sitting in the little wheelchair that he constructed for himself and hid from the world has finally made it to its permanent new place on the banks of the Potomac.

Photos of President Franklin D. Roosevelt sitting in a wheelchair are also rare and weren't shown to the public while he was in office. In this image from 1941 he's with his dog Fala and Ruthie ...

The historical objections to the wheelchair might have been decisive, the Olympian opinion averred, “if public monuments were meant primarily to fulfill the wishes of those they memorialize. . . .

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Franklin D. Roosevelt's efforts to conceal his bout with polio made some family members skeptical when people started planning a statue depicting the former president in a ...

(NECN/NBC News: Nicole Pence) - An Indiana professor uncovered an important piece of U.S. history, a rare film which shows Franklin Delano Roosevelt being pushed in his wheelchair.