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The President's Address
You should know that this fight against infantile paralysis is constantly assuming a greater and greater national character. Committees of prominent laymen and physicians are playing their part in this broadening of ideals, objectives and usefulness....
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Title: The President's Address
Creator: Franklin D. Roosevelt (author)
Date: January 18, 1936
Format: Speech
Publication: The Birthday Ball Magazine
Publisher: National Committee for the Birthday Ball for the President to Fight Infantile Paralysis
Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Control no.: RJ 496 P2 P7 1936
Keywords: Advocacy; American Medical Association; Birthday Balls; Charity; Diagnoses & Diseases; Disease; Doctors; Economics; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Fundraising; Georgia; Henry L. Doherty; Institutions; Media; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Physical Disability; Physical Therapy; Polio; Public Relations; Radio; Rehabilitation; Service Organizations; Social Welfare & Communities; Voluntarism; Warm Springs Foundation
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy
Funding Support Provided By: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute