Well, the flu has left him rather miserable and very tired, but he can't give into it.

At about 1230, he was dropping with sleep and let me take him to the big chair by the fireplace and put his feet on the

two-step stool. I went out to get ready for lunch and he fell sound asleep.

That was a description of the President of the United States

by his cousin.

In the middle of a work day, one year before he was re-elected.

When the president woke up from that much-needed nap,

he went back to work on what turned out to be his brilliant strategies for winning

World War II.

He continued running the secret project depicted in the film Oppenheimer to develop an atomic

bomb.

He designed the operating structure of what would become the United Nations,

and he was calling at the United Nations then, and he did all of that and much, much more

while he was dying.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who by most historians is considered the best or second best

president in history, depending on your view of of Lincoln was never a very healthy man

since he was paralyzed from the waist down by polio at age 39. polio was common

enough in those days that reporters understood why Roosevelt spent every day of his presidency in a wheelchair.

Before World War II started, President Roosevelt had already done more in domestic policy than all previous presidents combined.

He created Social Security of 40-hour work week, minimum wage, public works projects like the

Tennessee Valley Authority

beyond any previous imaginable scale

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