Hissing Cousins
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7. “Rallying Support by Staying on Point,” Silver City Sun-News, Feb. 26, 2009.
8. Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember, 69.
9. “The Eleanor Roosevelt Press Conferences,” Washington Press Club Foundation, group interview by Ruth Montgomery, May 22, 1989.
10. “Curb on Women Hit by Mrs. Roosevelt,” New York Times, April 11, 1933.
11. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, July 24, 1937.
12. Hickok, Reluctant First Lady, 136.
13. Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography, 179–80.
14. Longworth, “What Alice Thinks,” Oct. 9, 1936.
15. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, “The Ideal Qualifications for a President’s Wife,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Feb. 1936.
16. Ibid.
17. Kathleen McLaughlin, “Mrs. Roosevelt Goes Her Way,” New York Times, July 5, 1936.
18. “Mrs. Roosevelt Approves a Day Coach for Her Journey,” New York Times, March 23, 1937.
19. “Mrs. Roosevelt Bans Police Guard,” New York Times, March 16, 1933.
20. “Eleanor Everywhere,” Time, Nov. 20, 1933.
21. Rollins, Roosevelt and Howe, 442.
22. Ibid., 443.
23. Stiles, Man Behind Roosevelt, 279.
24. Ibid., 287.
25. ER to Hickok, in “Empty Without You,” 183, April 19, 1936.
26. Longworth, Crowded Hours, 313.
27. Ibid., 325.
28. Ibid., 340.
29. “The Best Sellers,” New York Times, Nov. 13, 1933.
30. Bingham, “Before the Colors Fade.”
31. “Two Roosevelt Women Try to Fill Will Rogers’s Shoes,” Newsweek, Jan. 4, 1936.
32. Letter from M. V. Atwood to V. V. McNitt, Feb. 19, 1936.
33. Longworth, What Alice Thinks, Jan. 28, 1936.
34. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Jan. 16, 1936.
35. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, June 11, 1936.
36. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Oct. 30, 1936.
37. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, May 8, 1936.
38. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Sept. 3, 1936.
39. Longworth, What Alice Thinks, Aug. 22, 1936.
40. Longworth, What Alice Thinks, May 7, 1937.
41. Longworth, What Alice Thinks, April 22, 1936.
42. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Oct. 5, 1936.
43. Sylvia Jukes Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 482.
44. “Two Roosevelt Women Try to Fill Will Rogers’s Shoes.”
45. Henry Brandon, “A Talk with an 83-Year-Old Enfant Terrible,” New York Times, Aug. 6, 1967.
46. Longworth, What Alice Thinks, Oct. 20, 1936.
47. Will Rogers, Daily Telegram, Jan. 28, 1934.
48. “Mrs. Longworth Takes Gold into White House,” Washington Post, Feb. 1, 1934.
49. Marion Dickerman, oral history, CUOHP.
50. “One Roosevelt Aids Another,” Christian Science Monitor, July 31, 1937.
51. “First Lady Tells of Joining Guild,” New York Times, Jan. 5, 1937.
52. Teague, Mrs. L, 161.
53. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 510.
54. Will Rogers, Daily Telegram, Jan. 28, 1934.
55. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin, 509.
56. “Roosevelt Clans Clash in Texas,” New York Times, Nov. 11, 1936.
57. Ibid.
58. ER to Corinne Roosevelt Alsop, Nov. 11, 1936, TRC.
59. George A. Carlin to ER, June 15, 1937, FDRL.
60. Hickok, Reluctant First Lady, 10.
61. Ibid., 43.
62. Ibid., 44.
63. Ibid., 49.
64. Ibid.
65. ER to Hickok, March 7, 1933, FDRL.
66. ER to Hickok, March 11, 1933, FDRL.
67. Doris Faber, The Life of Lorena Hickok, 139.
68. ER to Hickok, Jan. 27, 1934, FDRL.
69. Hickok to ER, Dec. 1933, FDRL.
70. Streitmatter, Empty Without You, xxii.
71. Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember, 124.
72. ER to Hickok, Nov. 27, 1933, FDRL.
73. “Eleanor Roosevelt’s Intimate Letters to Woman Writer Bared,” Miami News, Oct. 22, 1979.
74. ER to Greenway, Oct. 4, 1922, FDRL.
75. Pottker, Sara and Eleanor, 122.
76. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone, 174.
77. ER to Hickok, May 13, 1935, FDRL.
78. ER to Hickok, Feb. 1, 1935, FDRL.
79. Sally Quinn, “Alice Roosevelt Longworth at 90,” Washington Post, Feb. 12, 1974.
80. Teague, Mrs. L, 81–82.
81. Martin, Cissy, 360.
CHAPTER 9: CLOUDS OF WAR
1. Ruth Tankersley, interview by author.
2. “Verbal Political Exchanges with First Lady Seen as ‘Princess Alice’ Signs for Lecture Tour,” Washington Post, March 24, 1938.
3. Kathleen McLaughlin, “Mrs. Roosevelt Goes Her Way,” New York Times, July 5, 1936.
4. ER to FDR, Nov. 11, 1936, FDRL.
5. “Roosevelt Lecturers,” St. Petersburg Times, Dec. 1, 1938.
6. “Speaker Alice Longworth,” Washington Times Herald, April 3, 1938.
7. “Mrs. Longworth Urges a Limit on the Presidency,” Chicago Daily Tribune, Nov. 3, 1938.
8. June Provines, “Wisecracks from the Lecture Platform,” Chicago Daily Tribune, Nov. 4, 1938.
9. “The Doyenne of the Drawing Room,” New York Times, Aug. 23, 1981.
10. “Roosevelt Lecturers.”
11. Josephine Robertson, “Mrs. Longworth’s Discovery,” New York Herald Tribune, Nov. 1, 1938.
12. “Mrs. Roosevelt Pleads for Racial Justice,” New York Herald Tribune, Nov. 15, 1938.
13. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Nov. 15, 1938.
14. Ibid.
15. “Lynch Bill Urged by Mrs. Roosevelt,” New York Times, Jan. 13, 1939.
16. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Jan. 4, 1943.
17. Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember, 175.
18. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/eleanor-anderson/.
19. Swift, The Roosevelts and the Royals, 121.
20. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Feb. 27, 1939.
21. National Archives, http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/eleanor.html.
22. Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember, 196.
23. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, May 27, 1939.
24. George Dixon, “Tenting Tonight,” Washington Post, July 14, 1961.
25. Woollcott to Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, June 30, 1938, TRC.
26. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Dec. 30, 1937.
27. Teichmann, Smart Aleck, 283.
28. ARL to Woollcott, n.d., Northeast Harbor, Maine, TRC.
29. ER to Woollcott, March 23, 1938, TRC.
30. Steinberg, Mrs. R, 248.
31. Teichmann, Smart Aleck, 278.
32. Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember, 250.
33. The Washington Merry-Go-Round, United Feature Syndicate, March 20, 1940.
34. Joe Alsop to Woollcott, March 20, 1940, Harvard University.
35. Joe Alsop to Woollcott, n.d., Harvard University.
36. “Roosevelt Forces in ‘Victory Rally,’ ” New York Times, Nov. 5, 1940.
37. Leonard Lyons, “The New Yorker,” Washington Post, Jan. 12, 1941.
38. “Mary Borah Alert, Lively 90,” Pittsburgh Press, Aug. 17, 1965.
39. Mayme Ober Peak, “That Pickle Joke Was Mrs. Borah’s: Perfect Washington Wife Gave Alice Longworth Coolidge Quip,” Boston Daily Globe, Feb. 9, 1940.
40. Cordery, Alice, 45.
41. Renehan, Lion’s Pride, 229.
42. Teague, Mrs. L, 157.
43. Collier, Roosevelts, 413.
44. Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember, 229.
45. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Sept. 24, 1941.
46. James Roosevelt, My Parents: A Differing View, 113.
47. Kathleen McLaughlin, “President Shuts Self from World,” New York Times, Sept.
9, 1941.
48. “Tears Fill President’s Eyes at Burial of His Mother,” Washington Post, Sept. 10, 1941.
49. James Roosevelt, My Parents, 113.
50. ER to Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, Sept. 10, 1941, FDRL.
51. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, “What’s the Matter with Bob Taft?,” Saturday Evening Post, May 4, 1940.
52. Ibid.
53. Ibid.
54. “GOP Foreign Policy Plank Is Jigsawed,” Hartford Courant, June 28, 1940.
55. Joseph Alsop, I’ve Seen the Best of It, 93.
56. “ ‘Princess Alice’ Longworth Finds Her Minority Role Exciting at Capital,” AP, March 26, 1941.
57. Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember, 219.
58. “James Roosevelt Admits Asking Aid,” New York Times, Aug. 19, 1938.
59. “James Roosevelt on Job,” New York Times, Dec. 5, 1938.
60. Edith Kermit Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, Feb. 1925, TRC.
61. Kermit Roosevelt diary entry, March 24, 1943.
62. Kristie Miller, interview by author, April 22, 2013.
63. ARL to TR Jr., Aug. 26, 1939, LOC.
64. “The ‘Hate Roosevelt’ Committees,” Madison Capital Times, Feb. 4, 1941.
65. Ibid.
66. “Lindbergh Says Air Isolates Us,” New York Times, Aug. 30, 1941.
67. “Lindbergh Views Hotly Assailed,” New York Times, Aug. 31, 1941.
68. “Lindbergh Sees a ‘Plot’ for War,” New York Times, Sept. 12, 1941.
69. “War & Peace: Follow What Leader?,” Time, Oct. 6, 1941.
70. Eleanor B. Roosevelt, Day Before Yesterday, 417.
71. Ibid.
72. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, July 18, 1940.
73. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Feb. 3, 1939.
74. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Oct. 27, 1942.
75. Seymour Korman, “Eleanors Meet; One in Red Cross; Other on a Tour,” Chicago Tribune, Nov. 2, 1942.
76. Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember, 261.
77. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Nov. 4, 1942.
78. Seymour Korman, “Eleanors Meet: One in Red Cross, Other on Tour,” Chicago Daily Tribune, November 2, 1942.
79. Eleanor B. Roosevelt, Day Before Yesterday, 432.
80. ARL, interview by Weintal, Sept. 28, 1967, LOC.
81. Ibid.
82. “President Asks ‘Parasites’ to Quit National Capital,” New York Times, Jan. 31, 1942.
83. René de Chambrun, Mission and Betrayal, 72.
84. Ibid., 81.
85. Ibid., 80.
86. Ibid., 81.
87. René de Chambrun, France During the German Occupation, 1,378.
88. Joseph Barnes, “A Frenchman Speaks for Vichy,” New-York Tribune, Oct. 20, 1940.
89. “De Chambrun to Leave; Son-in-Law of Laval Intends to Reopen Paris Law Office,” New York Times, Nov. 10, 1940.
90. “3 Paris Journalists Punished by Laval,” New York Times, Feb. 18, 1943.
91. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Sept. 23, 1943.
92. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, July 15, 1944.
93. Cordery, Alice, 424.
94. Hope Ridings Miller, “Paulina Longworth Runs,” Washington Post, June 24, 1944.
CHAPTER 10: COLD PEACE
1. Ward, Closest Companion, 21–22.
2. Eleanor Wotkyns, interview by Emily Williams, June 19, 1978, FDRL.
3. Laura Delano, interview by Joseph Lash, June 25, (no year), FDRL.
4. James Roosevelt, My Parents, 9.
5. Asbell, When F.D.R. Died, 49.
6. Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography, 276.
7. Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember, 344; James Roosevelt, My Parents, 285.
8. Truman, Year of Decisions, 5.
9. Ward, Closest Companion, 418.
10. Sylvia Jukes Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 511.
11. Cordery, Alice, 426.
12. ARL, interview by Weintal, Sept. 28, 1967, LOC.
13. Marie McNair, Town Topics, Washington Post, July 27, 1945.
14. Drew Pearson, Washington Merry-Go-Round, May 17, 1946.
15. “Lowell Off the Page,” Kenyon Review 22.1 (Winter 2000), 255–74.
16. Jean vanden Heuvel, “The Sharpest Wit in Washington,” Saturday Evening Post, Dec. 4, 1965.
17. Wilhelm, Ezra Pound, 82.
18. Ibid., 305.
19. Michener, World Is My Home, 287.
20. Grace Grether, “Mrs. Vice President?,” Salt Lake City Tribune, July 2, 1948.
21. Lash, World of Love, 189.
22. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone, 15.
23. Ibid., 33.
24. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, April 24, 1945.
25. Daniels, Washington Quadrille, 298.
26. Lucy Rutherfurd to Anna Boettiger, May 9, 1945, FDRL.
27. Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography, 302.
28. Ibid., 303.
29. Eleanor Roosevelt, Human Rights Years, 244.
30. Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography, 308.
31. ER to Elinor Morgenthau, Jan. 20, 1946, FDRL.
32. Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography, 308.
33. Russell Barnes, “Mrs. F.D. Passes UNO Test,” Boston Daily Globe, Feb. 15, 1946.
34. ER to Lash, Feb. 13, 1946, FDRL.
35. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone, 56.
36. Barnes, “Mrs. F.D. Passes UNO Test.”
37. “For the Nobel Prize,” Boston Daily Globe, Feb. 19, 1946.
38. “Mrs. Roosevelt at a Remarkable 75,” New York Times, Oct. 4, 1959.
39. Howard M. Norton, “Elliott Clashes with Meyer on ‘Procuring’ Girls,” Baltimore Sun, Aug. 6, 1947; Mary Spargo, “Hughes Hospitality Had No Influence on Plane Contracts. Senators Informed: Elliott Roosevelt Challenges Items in Meyer’s Accounts,” Washington Post, Aug. 5, 1947.
40. “When Women Are Firm,” Hagerstown (Md.) Daily Mail, Aug. 14, 1947.
41. Douglas, Eleanor Roosevelt We Remember, 35.
42. Chicago Tribune, July 23, 1944.
43. Drew Pearson, “Dewey Called Best of GOP Lot,” Washington Post, June 19, 1948.
44. “Granddaughters of Mark Hanna and Theodore Roosevelt Aid Taft,” New York Herald Tribune, April 23, 1948.
45. “Mrs. Longworth’s Daughter Suffers ‘Sudden Illness,’ ” Washington Post, May 8, 1952.
46. Mr. and Mrs. Sheffield Cowles, oral history interview by Hermann Hagedorn, Dec. 28, 1954, CUOHP.
47. Dorothy Day, “On Pilgrimage,” Catholic Worker, Feb. 1957.
48. Marie McNair, “2 Birthdays but Not 1 Celebration,” Washington Post, Feb. 8, 1953.
49. ER to Lash, Oct. 23, 1943, FDRL.
50. ER to ARL, Jan. 28, 1957, FDRL.
51. Corr to Lash, April 20, 1966, FDRL.
52. ARL to ER, June 30, 1957, LOC.
53. Felsenthal, Princess Alice, 236.
54. Kermit Roosevelt, interview by author.
55. Ruth Tankersley, interview by author.
56. Dorothy McCardle, “She’s Putting Best Foot Forward,” Washington Post, Aug. 19, 1958.
57. Kermit Roosevelt, interview by author.
58. Vidal, “Theodore Roosevelt.”
59. Dow, Eleanor Roosevelt, an Eager Spirit, 226.
60. ER to Anna, July 28, 1947, FDRL.
61. Elliott Roosevelt to Anna, July 29, 1947, FDRL.
62. James Roosevelt, My Parents, 314.
63. ER to Anna, Aug. 21, 1950, FDRL.
64. James Roosevelt, oral history, FDRL.
CHAPTER 11: MONUMENTS
1. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone, 245.
2. Henry, Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson, 119.
3. Longworth, Crowded Hours, 1.
4. ARL, interview by St. John-Stevas, Jan. 31, 1970, LOC.
5. Ibid.
6. Stewart Alsop, “How Many Egg-Heads Are There?,” Washington Post, Sept. 26, 1952.
7. ARL, interview by St. John-Stevas, Jan. 31, 1970.
8. Teague, Mrs. L, 197.
10. Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, Feb. 1, 1960.
11. Mitchell, Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady, 20.
12. Denton, Pink Lady, 62.
13. Helen Gahagan Douglas, The Eleanor Roosevelt We Remember, 36.
14. http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/thelife/apolitician/thesenator.php.
15. Mitchell, Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady, 140.
16. Helen Gahagan Douglas interviews by Amelia Fry, April 4, 1973, to Sept. 14, 1976, 201, CUOHP.
17. Teague, Mrs. L, 199.
18. Ibid., 194.
19. Cordery, Alice, 454.
20. ARL, interview by Jean vanden Heuvel, Sept. 26, 1969, LOC.
21. Joseph Alsop, I’ve Seen the Best of It, 92.
22. Ibid., 430.
23. Ibid.
24. ARL to JFK, Nov. 28, 1960, JFK Library, Boston.
25. ARL, interview by Norman St. John-Stevas, Jan. 31, 1971.
26. Curtis Roosevelt, interview by author.
27. Schlesinger to JFK, March 11, 1958, in The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, 156.
28. Curtis Roosevelt, interview by author.
29. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone, 297.
30. Schlesinger, Letters, 212.
31. Ibid., 213.
32. ER to JFK, Sept. 27, 1960, JFK Library, Boston.
33. ER to JFK, July 28, 1961, JFK Library, Boston.
34. New York Herald, Oct. 11, 1961.
35. ER to Martin Luther King Jr., Sept. 21, 1962, FDRL.
36. Martin Luther King Jr., telegram, “Epitaph of a First Lady,” FDRL.
37. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone, 310.
38. Lash, World of Love, 547.
39. http://www.whitehousehistory.org/whha_shows/eleanor_Roosevelt/theme_my-day-christmas.html.
40. Washington Post, July 9, 1989.
41. ARL, interview by vanden Heuvel.
42. Kristie Miller, interview by author.
43. Teague, Mrs. L, 157.
44. 60 Minutes, April 4, 1969.
45. Teague, Mrs. L, 160.
46. Bingham, “Before the Colors Fade.”
47. Lady Bird Johnson, Jan. 17, 1968, A White House Diary, 615.
48. Kermit Roosevelt, interview by author.
49. Bingham, “Before the Colors Fade.”
50. Teague, Mrs. L, 197.
51. William Safire, “Weaned on a Pickle,” New York Times, Feb. 25, 1980.
52. Ibid.
53. Ibid.
54. Cordery, Alice, 474.
55. Schlesinger, Journals, 436.
56. Teague, Mrs. L, xvii.
57. Brandon, “Talk with An 83-Year-Old Enfant Terrible,” 8.