[justiceseeker93]

On the one hand, we have the case of FDR. Roosevelt was mostly confined to a wheelchair because of polio. It was for vanity reasons that the press covered up photographing him in the chair. As we know from his four terms, it wasn't a health issue.

Obviously, keeping from the public Roosevelt's paralysis from polio and reliance on a wheelchair saved his political career and changed the course of American history.

BTW, by Roosevelt's fourth and final presidential campaign in 1944, the press was covering up even more serious medical issues: Roosevelt was known (in inner circles) to be near death because of congestive heart failure. The wiser decision at that point might have been to step down after three terms, and let a more physically capable successor replace him. But Roosevelt ran and won, then died less than three months into his fourth term. The public, by and large, had no idea of his condition because the media never mentioned it.

[Mears]

“The public, by and large, had no idea of his condition because the media never mentioned it. “

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But anyone with a brain could guess by the Yalta photos.

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