one that people today don't know about so much anymore because locally pouliot has been wiped out or you but there's a phenomenon called post polio syndrome. and apparently it remains in a more quiet way inside the body and can be reactivated and she went through that and she began to develop ulcers. she died of cancer because there were no treatments. >> host: was she political? >> in a certain way. she never belonged to any political organizations. she had a more spiritual feeling. but she adored franklin roosevelt because she not only felt this but you have to understand what must amends for her to know that a fellow polio sufferer was a president of the united states. this was a powerful and emotional attachment. and when she did all this work on a she had no problem with saying the people that the way she would introduce yourself to people that she was going to photograph, they were farmworkers and sharecroppers, she would say that i work for president roosevelt. and she would even say yes, i make propaganda for president roosevelt and she didn't feel that that diminish the impo

so there is a failure of politics there that we have to -- >> reporter: the president and pouliot didefly here according to senior administration officials but they didn't have much time to talk. they'll try once again at the g-20 summit. the president did announce some loosened travel restrictions for chinese tourists and business leaders going to the united states. that's a modest accomplishment for a trip that may be well remembered as getting the president out of washington. >> thank you very much. the president will certainly face a changed political landscape when he gets back home. joining us to discuss our chief political analyst, gloria borger. he has a future piece on politics in the new issue article i recommend highly. once he gets back, there is a stand-off rate now on immigration. the president says if the republicans and the congress and the house and senate don't pass legislation before the end of this area, changing the status, if you will, of immigrants, he will take unilateral action. >> i think you're headed for a showdown. it is pretty obvious what it will be. mit