The Archive · 1941

FDR's Birth Nearly Fatal

But she never did. Given a brief period of relative leisure and she would pack her trunks and be off to some foreign country to visit its shrines, Tt was on one of the President's birthdays that Mrs. Roosevelt recalled that she had been given too much chloroform at his birth and that it was nearly fatal to the future Chief Executive of the United States.

Said Mrs. Roosevelt: "The nurse told me afterward that she never expected to see that baby alive and was surprised to find that he was,"—United Press.

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