Rich Lowry
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 29 Jul
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And I just don't think that's necessarily true.
And this was really brought home to me.
I went to Hyde Park, home of FDR.
a while ago, and they showed us his study.
And of course, he was paralyzed after this awful bout with polio.
And what he would do when visitors came in, they'd roll him down a ramp.
The ramp would collapse, and it would be normal stairs when the visitor came.
And they'd roll him behind a desk, get him into a chair, and he'd play around with the stamp collection.
And this was so painful for him.
He could only do it for like 20 minutes or so.
And the person would come in and have no idea there was anything wrong with him.
He was such a bubbly personality that he would just talk the whole time and no one would think, oh, he's not walking around the room or he's not really moving.
And after 20 minutes, the person would be ushered out, the steps would go up, the ramp would come.
And that was artifice, but also extremely courageous.
He'd give speeches standing, you know, with his arms almost giving out because he was so obsessed with not seeming like a victim.
And a more recent example of this,
MBD mentioned John McCain.
I was covering him, I don't know, I think it was in 2000.
And I was on the press bus with McCain, early stages of campaign where you're really intimate with the candidate.
And all the reporters have left, and I left my notebook or something or tape recorder.
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