Transcription: Roosevelt committed himself to buying Warm Springs. He was well-to-do, but no millionaire. The $195,000 asking price for the rundown hotel, its pools and surrounding acres would take two-thirds of his fortune. The prospects of the place ever becoming a paying proposition were remote. Eleanor was beside herself. In 1927, Roosevelt established the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, a center for the study of Polish and aftercare for its victims. In its first year of operation, 61 patients took up residence and Warm Springs earned the approval of the American Orthopaedic Foundation.
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