Historical Context
Before and during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency, the extent of his disability was carefully concealed from the public. Sunrise at Campobello depicts the debilitating effects of FDR's illness to a greater extent than had been previously disclosed by the media.
Although FDR's disease was earlier attributed to poliomyelitis, a 2003 peer-reviewed study found that six of eight Bayesian posterior probabilities favored a diagnosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome over poliomyelitis.
FDR's attending physician, Dr. William Keen, believed it was polio and commended Eleanor's devotion to the stricken Franklin during that time of travail, as portrayed in Sunrise at Campobello. "You have been a rare wife and have borne your heavy burden most bravely," he said, proclaiming her "one of my heroines".
Franklin D. Roosevelt's character in the movie states that President Harding is playing the tuba while the country has 6,000,000 people out of work.
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