FDR: “My whole objective was to make the country as conscious about Polio as…”

On the recordDecember 6, 1935

My whole objective was to make the country as conscious about Polio as it is about T.B.

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Democratic · New York

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Remarks to Orthopedic Surgeons, Warm Springs, Georgia.

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FDR: “My whole objective was to make the country as conscious about Polio as it is about T.B.”