Today, January 30,  we are celebrating what would be Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 132nd Birthday.  Beginning in 1934, FDR would address the American public annually by radio to thank them for attending “birthday balls” and parties in his honor which were held to raise money for research to find a cure to polio and to care for people who had been stricken with the disease.  In 1936, FDR’s 54th Birthday, speaking to the nation from his home at 65th Street (now known as Roosevelt House) and from the White House a few days later, FDR reminded Americans that they could make a difference for all people of whatever age, like himself who had been affected by the disease: