06-27-2011, 10:10 PM
It wasn't that covered up, they just agreed not to mention it nor take photographs. Countless American people sent in small donations to pay for a swimming pool in the white house because swimming was his only form of real exercise. It stayed until Richard Nixon had it drained and removed for another use. That's when I heard talk about it.
Old reporters talked about seeing, during WW II, FDR "carried almost like a sack of potatoes" and flopped down into a chair. Then other world leaders would sit in chairs for the group photo. Before FDR, the photos were always of leaders standing.
It was a different era then; now photographers work hard to take an unflattering photo of a leader because it can mean huge bucks.
Old reporters talked about seeing, during WW II, FDR "carried almost like a sack of potatoes" and flopped down into a chair. Then other world leaders would sit in chairs for the group photo. Before FDR, the photos were always of leaders standing.
It was a different era then; now photographers work hard to take an unflattering photo of a leader because it can mean huge bucks.