A Man of Virtue...Who Lacked Legs...At Least Ones that Functioned Properly

On this day, November 14th, in the year 1935, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared the Phillipines a free commonwealth, ending a long history of imperial rule. Roosevelt, excited by the news, leapt into the air and clicked his heels together. We can only hope that he enjoyed the mobility while he still had it, for by the end of his tenure as President, the man who would be king could jump for joy no more.