This just made me laugh so hard, from Chris White Answers Profound Questions About the Presidents on McSweeny’s.
“When at his Georgia retreat, FDR liked to ditch the Secret Service, drive the back roads in his polio-mobile and see how the Depression was going.”
I really do picture FDR jauntily waving to the shivering pile of bones staring at him from the sidewalks of a gray little Hooverville.