It wasn’t shocking at all. Lying journalists knew it and simply withheld it from us. Every one of the productive people (e.g. not politicians and journalists) knew the truth. This is why journalism is regarded as almost as sleazy and fit for only the stupid as “studies”.
“Lying journalists knew it and simply withheld it from us.”
FDR’s need for a wheelchair was kept hidden during his presidency.
In 1945, FDR was quite ill.