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...counselor to the President, "he feels quite hopeful. He's not frustrated or blue or disappointed. He has an ability to adapt, to figure out a way to get things done." In this case, getting things done means becoming the first Democrat to win two terms since Franklin Roosevelt. And if he succeeds, Clinton will have one more thing to figure out: how to turn victory's reward into something more than four years of frustration...
...unaided after his 1921 polio attack. "Not sufficient," says Michael Deland, a board member of the National Organization on Disability, who is confined to a wheelchair. "F.D.R.'s disability was simply too central to his very being." Hugh Gallagher, author of F.D.R.'s Splendid Deception, a book detailing how Roosevelt veiled his disability (only two pictures of him in a wheelchair are among the 125,000 in the Roosevelt library), calls the plans "historically inaccurate." Alan Reich, president of the N.O.D., which claims to reflect the feelings of almost 50 million disabled Americans, says visual depiction is necessary because Roosevelt...
Senate majority leader Bob Dole, disabled from war wounds to his right shoulder and arm, has protested. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin (No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II) says putting F.D.R. in a wheelchair "would be one of the most powerful parts of the memorial...
Architect Halprin echoes the view held so far by the memorial commission and the Roosevelt family. "This is about Roosevelt's being President," he says. "He did not wish to appear before the people as disabled. This makes him out to be who he wanted to be. To do otherwise would be a historical denial of how he felt...
...commission, co-chaired by Senators Mark Hatfield of Oregon and Daniel Inouye of Hawaii (who lost an arm in the war), and including grandson David Roosevelt, is hunkering down. But the tide seems to be against their view: that F.D.R.'s deception of the 1930s-politically incorrect now but necessary, he believed, for the politics of the time-should be perpetuated in a monument intended for the ages. "We all need to understand what it was this man conquered,'' says Goodwin. "If Franklin Roosevelt were to come back, I think he would want his disability to be shown in some...