Mitch Mcconnell, the person who sets the legislative agenda in the Senate, wrote this in his memoir: It’s one of my life’s great fortunes that Sister’s home wa

Mitch Mcconnell, the person who sets the legislative agenda in the Senate, wrote this in his memoir: It’s one of my life’s great fortunes that Sister’s home was only about sixty miles from Warm Springs, Georgia, where President Franklin D. Roosevelt had established a polio treatment center and where he’d often travel to find relief from the polio that paralyzed him at the age of thirty-nine. My mother took me there every chance she had. The nurses would teach her how to perform exercises meant to rehabilitate my leg while also emphasizing her need to make me believe I could walk, even though I wasn’t allowed to. I bet it left an impression.