Master of His Fate by James Tobin

Author:James Tobin [Tobin, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

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Early in December 1925, FDR began to pack for the trip home to New York. He had been with Dr. McDonald at Marion for more than three months.

Slowly, cautiously, he had been practicing walking with crutches and a brace on only his left leg, and no assistants. Now, as a final test, he set off down Water Street to see how far he could go on his own.

One house.… two houses … three houses …

He kept going.

Dr. McDonald, LeRoy Jones, and Mrs. McDonald trailed just behind, ready to catch him if he started to fall.

Finally he made it to the edge of the wharf, nearly a block from McDonald’s house. He lifted his head and cried: “I can walk!”

He called for a photograph. He slung his arms around the shoulders of Jones and McDonald. As Mrs. McDonald prepared to snap the shutter of her camera, FDR’s face broke into as broad a grin as he had shown the roaring crowds at Madison Square Garden, where his hope of returning to politics had been reborn.

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