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In 1921, FDR contracted polio. It was a
terrible blow, and he considered retiring
to the country to live out his life as
an invalid gentleman. But Eleanor kept
his contacts with the Democratic Party
alive while he recovered, even agreeing
to address a party fund-raiser. She was
terrified of public speaking, and not
much good at it—she had a highpitched
voice and laughed nervously at
all the wrong times. But she trained for
the event and made her way through
the speech.
After that, Eleanor was still unsure of
herself, but she began working to fix
the social problems she saw all around
her. She became a champion of women’s
issues and forged alliances with
other serious-minded people. By 1928,
when FDR was elected governor of New
York, she was the director of the Bureau
of Women’s Activities for the
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