01.07.2019 - By Prairie Public
America and the world lost one of its most fascinating and productive citizens with the passing of Roosevelt on January 6, 1919. His health had become aggravated by rheumatic fever, mandating a month’s stay in hospital. He battled fever, vertigo and anemia, and could no long hear in his left ear. He had trouble with his balance, and never regained sight in one eye from one of his bouts of presidential boxing.