Let's pit Martin Luther King!

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@John_Mace

Actually, almost everyone knew “something”, if not all the specifics. But it was generally not shown in pictures.

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@TriPolar

The ‘beating polio’ theme was part of his 1932 campaign. There was a widely seen newsreel shot that purported to show him walking out of a clinic. In actuality he was supported by others and only took a single step with his braces on. His campaign was carefully crafted to show him as a vital man. He was often portrayed wearing a hat with the front brim folded up as if he was facing into the wind, and the cigarette holder clenched in his teeth was an obvious phallic symbol.

@Beware_of_Doug

Don’t read too much modern-day into these things. Wearing your brim up was more of a 19teens thing than a “wind” thing. Cigarette holders stood for the patrician set, not penises (or he’d have smoked a long, fat cigar).

Paging Winston Churchill!