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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ericl, post: 64784, member: 2697&quot;]Okay, the history of the FDR dime:</p><p><br /></p><p>IN 1921, former assistant Secretary of the Navy (and Democratic Vice presidential nominee) Franklin D. Roosevelt came down with infantile paralysis, or Polio, which destroyed the nerves between his legs and his brain and made his lower limbs useless.</p><p><br /></p><p>In late 1922, he discovered a resort in Georgia called Warm Springs, who&#039;s healing waters seemed to do some good. In 1923, he founded the Warm Springs foundation to help finance the sanitarium for poilio victims who had begun to flock to the place.</p><p><br /></p><p>Each year, beginning in 1926, the foundation would have a nationwide fundraising drive, which was called &quot;the march of dimes.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>March of DIMES, get it?</p><p><br /></p><p>As we all know, Roosevelt was elected Governor of New York in 1928 and President of the United States in 1932. He served in the latter capacity TWELVE years, one month and a week, a record that will NEVER be equaled.</p><p><br /></p><p>When he died, it was decided by Congress that the founder of the march of DIMES should be honored by putting his face on a DIME.</p><p><br /></p><p>Simple, no?</p><p><br /></p><p>When Ronald Reagan died last year, a number of rabid Republicans wanted to take FDR&#039;s face off the dime and put Ronnie&#039;s on it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Nancy Reagan nixed the idea.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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