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Warm Springs: President Roosevelt
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WARM SPRINGS follows Roosevelt's story from the heady times before he contracted polio through the initial phases of his affliction, subsequent despair, and eventual rebirth. Roosevelt found hope after hearing about a young polio victim who learned to walk again after swimming in the waters of a health spa near Atlanta, Georgia. He moved to Warm Springs in 1924, and his initial cynicism about the pitiable patients was gradually replaced by empathy, optimism and inspiration. There he found the will to head back to public life. Four years later, Roosevelt won the first of four elected terms as president.
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Invoking the historical setting, the film highlights such details as the Bullochville train depot, which serves as the gateway to Warm Springs, and George Foster Peabody's letter inviting Roosevelt to visit Georgia. The film ... uses letters written between Roosevelt and his wife to emphasize what Roosevelt calls "a suffering so insidious, so silent, that it rattles my soul." Warm Springs ends with Roosevelt back in public life, nominating Al Smith for president at the 1928 Democratic convention.
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Left a paraplegic from polio at the age of 39, in 1921, WARM SPRINGS follows Franklin Delano Roosevelt as he seeks out a "miracle" cure in the backwoods of rural Georgia. As his wife Eleanor takes up the mantle of the public Roosevelt, Franklin battles the stigma of polio and encounters those affected not just by disability, but by poverty, illiteracy and racism. In time he comes to learn that though he may never walk again, he can still lead. In the health spa Warm Springs, with help from a devoted therapist and eventually, his chief aide and wife, a future four-term president finds his personal and political soul.
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Although the warm public pools closed soon after Roosevelt's death, visitors can dip their hands in a fountain fed by the famous springs. Warm Springs still periodically attracts dignitaries: two Democratic presidential candidates, John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter, made campaign stops there. In 1995 President Bill Clinton—joined by Carter, former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young, and other national figures—presided over services marking the fiftieth anniversary of Roosevelt's death.
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Many credit Roosevelt's stay in Warm Springs with some of the landmark policies of his administration. It was there that he learned of the struggles of rural Americans and developed ideas for New Deal programs such as the Rural Electrification Administration, which brought affordable power to rural areas.
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It was late afternoon of a warm spring day. Vice-President Harry S. Truman had just finished listening to a Senate debate. He was given a telephone message. It asked him to get to the White House as soon as possible.
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