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FDR driving (Original Post)
WI_DEM
Jan 2013
OP
his 1937 Ford (the car that Fala's riding in) is at his Library in Hyde Park
Cooley Hurd
Jan 2013
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limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)1. Is this in response to Beyonce lip-syncing?
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)2. No, why?
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)3. maybe I was over thinking it.
deurbano
(2,895 posts)5. Did you mean how could he drive if his legs were paralyzed?
I wonder that, too. Did his cars have hand controls?
Like maybe it was faked or something?
The hand controls that allowed FDR to drive a car originated at Warm Springs, which is now the Roosevelt Institute for Rehabilitation.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)4. his 1937 Ford (the car that Fala's riding in) is at his Library in Hyde Park
I've actually TOUCHED it!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)11. The dog or the car?
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)13. Sadly, Fala's 6 feet under a sundial in FDR's Rose Garden now...
...so it was the car.
LeftInTX
(25,368 posts)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
(3,871 posts)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
(12,482 posts)7. calvin coolidge wearing traditional native american war bonnet
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)12. He did like his phaeton body cars, so he could be seen.