Churchill and the Daily News.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills

There is new support for my long campaign to prove that knowledge of FDR's paralysis was widespread and not concealed from the public as some historians have suggested. First is a 1933 New York Daily News full-page photograph of FDR leaving his home on crutches, recently reprinted by The New York Times that was originally seen by the several million readers that the News had then. Now Monthly alumnus Jon Meacham's absorbing new book, Franklin and Winston, quotes an article Churchill wrote in 1934, and included in his book Great Contemporaries, published in 1937.

"His lower limbs refused their offices. Crutches or assistance were needed for the smallest movement from place to place. To 99 men out of 100, such an...