22. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, June 9, 1940.
23. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 8), June 10, 1940.
24. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Isabella (Mrs. Harry) King, Aug. 22, 1940; Ickes, III, p. 207.
25. E. Roosevelt, TIR, cited (Ch. 16), pp. 212–14; Emma Bugbee, in the New York Herald Tribune, July 19, 1940; Fortune survey, reported in the New York World Telegram, June 24, 1940.
26. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” June 27, 1940.
27. Ibid., July 17, 1940.
28. The author was at Val-Kill the week of the convention and recorded his observations in his diary, July 15–19, 1940; Francis Biddle, In Brief Authority (New York, 1962), p. 140.
29. Farley, pp. 283, 299; E. Roosevelt and Hickok, Ladies of Courage, cited (Ch. 30), pp. 281–84; E. Roosevelt, TIR, p. 215; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” July 19 and 20, 1940; Lash Diaries, July 15–19, 1940.
30. New York Daily News, June 24, 1940; interview with Alice Longworth; the incident in the president’s oval study is recorded in Lash Diaries, Feb. 5, 1941.
31. Gardner Jackson, OHP.
32. New York Daily News, July 19, 1940.
33. Letter from Helen Reid to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 19, 1940; letter from George Norris to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 19, 1940.
34. Letter from May Craig to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 6, 1940, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Aug. 8, 1940; Eleanor Roosevelt, press conference, New York Times, June 3, 1940; copy of memorandum from Eleanor Roosevelt on mobilization of the entire country sent to Harry Hooker, undated; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Nan Honeyman, July 18, 1940; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Aug. 5, 7, and 28, 1940; Eleanor Roosevelt, speech to the New York Herald Tribune Forum, Oct. 22, 1940.
35. Franklin D. Roosevelt, press-conference transcript, Sept. 24, 1940; letter from Selden Rodman to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 26, 1940; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Oct. 8, 1940; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Selden Rodman, Oct. 28, 1940.
36. Henry L. Stimson, On Active Service (New York, 1947), p. 353.
37. Lash Diaries, Aug. 4, 1940.
38. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Aug. 5, 1940.
39. Letter from David Gray to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 29, 1940.
40. Ickes, III, p. 295.
41. Lash Diaries, Feb. 4, 1940.
42. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, Aug. 9, 1940; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Ruby Black, Aug. 6, 1940; letter from Molly Dewson to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 13, 1940, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Aug. 8, 1940; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Fiorello LaGuardia, Aug. 24, 1940.
43. Lash Diaries, Aug. 14, 1940; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Leon Gilson, Oct. 8, 1940.
44. Interview with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
45. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Oct. 11, 1940.
46. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, Oct. 17, 1940.
47. Reaction to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.’s campaigning in President’s Personal File 5; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Oct. 17, 1940.
48. Letter from E. M. Watson to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Oct. 1, 1940.
49. F. D. Roosevelt, Public Papers, 1940, p. 517; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Oct. 31, 1940.
50. Letter from Katherine Littell to Malvina Thompson Scheider, Oct. 29, 1940.
51. Recollection of Trude Lash.
52. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Nov. 5, 1940.
53. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, Nov. 3, 1940.
54. Lash Diaries, Nov. 5, 1940.
55. Accounts of election night at Hyde Park in New York newspapers, Nov. 6, 1940; Lash Diaries, Nov. 5 and 6, 1940.
56. Lash Diaries, Nov. 5 and 6, 1940; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Lady Florence Willert, Nov. 16, 1940.
51. A JOB TO DO
1. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Jan. 14, 1941.
2. Letter from Esther Lape to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 15, 1940, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Dec. 19, 1940.
3. Bonaro W. Overstreet, in the National Parent Teacher, May 1950; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 8), Jan. 21, 1941.
4. Eleanor Roosevelt’s reaction to Lillian Hellman’s Watch on the Rhine in Lash Diaries, April 20, 1941.
5. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Martha Gellhorn, Sept. 27, 1939; Lash Diaries, May 29, 1940.
6. Lash Diaries, June 15, 1940.
7. Henry L. Feingold, The Politics of Rescue: the Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust, 1938–1944 (New Brunswick, N.J., 1970), p. 160; on the State Dept.’s visa policy after the fall of France, see Feingold, Ch. VI; Arthur D. Morse, While Six Million Died (New York, 1967), pp. 294–304; David S. Wyman, Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938–1941 (Mass., 1968), pp. 138–50; letter from Albert Einstein to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 26, 1941.
8. Lash Diaries, June 24, 1940; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to A. A. Berle, June 25, 1940.
9. Letter from Karl Frank to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 15, 1940.
10. Memorandum from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 2, 1940. The exchange was occasioned by Mrs. Roosevelt’s efforts to help Dr. Edith Vogel of Keuka College to get her mother and sister out of Prague.
11. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nov. 27, 1940; letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Summer Welles, Dec. 11 and 30, 1940.
12. Letter from Mrs. Lion Feuchtwanger to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 17, 1960.
13. Nelson Rockefeller replied, Jan. 14, 1941, saying that he hoped her decision was “not final as I know nothing would be more helpful at this time than your visit to South America.”
14. Letter from James Gerard to Eleanor Roosevelt, Nov. 6, 1940, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Nov. 9, 1940.
15. Letter from Lady Stella Reading to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 1, 1939, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Dec. 28, 1939; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Schoonmaker, Dec. 29, 1939; letter from Florence Kerr to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 4, 1940; letter from Ellen Woodward to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 2, 1941; letter from Harriet Elliott to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 2, 1941; memorandum from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 5, 1941.
16. Lash Diaries, Jan. 16, 1941.
17. Ibid., Feb. 27, 1941.
18. See E. Roosevelt, TIR, cited (Ch. 16), p. 239, for Hopkins’ attitude toward the health program; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Aubrey Williams on the NYA and Farm Security, Jan. 12, 1942; on the food-stamp program, see the letter from Henry B. Sell to Malvina Thompson, Nov. 8, 1942; New York Times, Oct. 30, 1941; New York Herald Tribune, Feb. 1, 1941.
19. F. D. Roosevelt, Public Papers, cited (Ch. 13), 1941, p. 44; see also pp. 162–66.
20. Ickes, Secret Diary, cited (Ch. 24), III, pp. 406–8.
21. F. D. Roosevelt, Public Papers, 1941, pp. 162–66.
22. Interview with Samuel I. Rosenman; Ickes, III, pp. 398, 518.
23. Letter from Florence Kerr to Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 22, 1941; letter from Harriet Elliott to Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 22, 1941.
24. Letter from Fiorello LaGuardia to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 5, 1941, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, June 10, 1941; New York Herald Tribune, June 18, 1941.
25. Ickes, III, p. 572; interview with Anna Rosenberg Hoffman.
26. On Florence Kerr’s troubles with Mayor LaGuardia, see her letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, Feb. 16, 1942; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, July 22, 1941; Franklin D. Roosevelt, remarks to the Civilian Participation Committee, July 24, 1941, in F. D. Roosevelt, Public Papers, 1941, pp. 277–81.
27. For Eleanor Roosevelt’s criticism of volunteer-participation plans, see the New York Times, Aug. 28, 1941; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Fiorello LaGuardia, Aug. 29, 1941; on the White House meeting on civil defense, see the letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Jane Seaver, Aug. 31, 1941; Minutes of the White House meeting on civil defense, Sept. 3, 1941; Lash Diaries, Sept. 6, 1941; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. La
sh, Sept. 3, 1941.
28. On Anna Rosenberg’s and Harry Hopkins’ persuading her to take the OCD job, see the letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Florence Kerr, Feb. 18, 1942; E. Roosevelt, TIR, p. 240; interview with Anna Rosenberg.
29. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Anna Rosenberg, Sept. 6, 1941.
30. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, Sept. 14, 1941; Helen Robinson, Diaries, cited (Ch. 16), Sept. 7, 1941.
31. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Sept. 7, 1941; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Sept. 9, 1941.
32. Lash Diaries, Oct. 23, 1941; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Miss Rank, Aug. 31, 1942.
33. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Sept. 14, 1941; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, Sept. 26, 1941; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Sept. 26, 1941.
34. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Sept. 16, 1941.
35. Ibid., Oct. 2, 1941.
36. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Lady Stella Reading, Oct. 4, 1941.
37. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Paul V. McNutt, Nov. 9, 1941; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to M. L. Wilson, Nov. 6, 1941; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Belle Roosevelt, Nov. 5, 1941.
38. James Landis, OHP.
39. Interview with Justine Polier; letter from Paul Kellogg to Francis Biddle, Jan. 13, 1942; letter from Leila Pinchot to Eleanor Roosevelt, Feb. 20, 1942; letters from Kathrine Lenroot to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 27, 1942, and Dec. 3, 1942; letter from Katherine Lenroot to Frances Perkins, Dec. 23, 1942.
40. Interview with Justine Polier; letter from Paul Kellog to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 28, 1942.
41. E. Roosevelt, TIR, p. 233; Eleanor Roosevelt, radio broadcast, Dec. 7, 1941.
42. Landis, OHP.
43. E. Roosevelt, TIR, p. 234.
44. Lash Diaries, Dec. 8, 1941.
45. Ibid., Dec. 8 and 9, 1941.
46. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Alice Huntington, Dec. 16, 1941; letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Dec. 11 and 13, 1941.
47. Letter from Wayne Coy to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dec. 13, 1941; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to James Landis, Dec. 16, 1941; Harold Smith, Diary, in FDRL.
48. Last Diaries, Jan. 1, 1942; Smith, Diary, Jan. 2, 1942.
49. Congressional Record, Jan. 8, 1942.
50. Ibid., Jan. 12, 1942, and Feb. 6, 1942; Eleanor Roosevelt, press conference, Feb. 10, 1942, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s staff chart, Feb. 18, 1942.
51. Landis, OHP.
52. Ibid.
53. Letter from John C. O’Laughlin to Herbert Hoover, Feb. 7, 1942.
54. Samuel Grafton, in the New York Post, Feb. 11, 1942.
55. Congressional Record, Feb. 9, 1942.
56. New York Times, Feb. 13, 1942.
57. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Paul Kellogg, Feb. 10, 1942; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to James Landis, Jan. 30, 1942.
58. Landis, OHP.
59. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to James Landis, Jan. 30, 1942.
60. Landis, OHP; New York Times, Feb. 12, 1942.
61. Fiorello LaGuardia, WNYC broadcast, Feb. 15, 1942.
62. E. Roosevelt, TIR, p. 250; Eleanor Roosevelt, radio broadcast, Feb. 22, 1942.
63. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, July 26, 1942; Landis, OHP.
52. GI’S FRIEND, I: JOURNEY TO BRITAIN
1. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Feb. 5, 1942; Lash Diaries, Dec. 26, 1941; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, June 7, 1942.
2. For remarks of the American Legion official, see the New York Times, April 6, 1942, and for Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, see ibid., April 18, 1942; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, March 20, 1942.
3. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 23, 1942.
4. Forrest C. Pogue, George C. Marshall: Ordeal and Hope (New York, 1965), pp. 115–16; letter from George Bye to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 19, 1942; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Frank Knox, March 11, 1942; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Archibald MacLeish, March 15, 1942; letter from Gen. Frederick H. Osborn to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 18, 1942; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maj. Gen. Magee, July 21, 1942, and Magee’s reply, July 25, 1942; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Anthony Castorino, May 28, 1942; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, May 9, 1942.
5. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Summer Welles, March 9, 1942; letter from Charles Taft to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 24, 1942.
6. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, Oct. 6, 1942.
7. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Lady Florence Willert, July 9, 1942; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Helen Ferris, Oct. 19, 1942.
8. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Lady Stella Reading, Oct. 4, 1941; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, July 31, 1942; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Philip Vaughn (“Bennett”), Aug. 11, 1942.
9. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Henry Stimson, Sept. 22, 1942; Stimsom, Diary, cited (Ch. 44), Oct. 2, 1942.
10. Letter from Lord Halifax to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 17, 1942; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Gilbert Winant, Sept. 22, 1942; memorandum from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 16, 1942.
11. The account of the trip, unless otherwise noted, is drawn from Eleanor Roosevelt, “Diary of Trip to Gt. Britain—Oct. 21 to Nov. 17, 1942,” unpublished.
12. London Daily Mail, Nov. 18, 1942.
13. Eleanor Roosevelt, Diary; Eleanor Roosevelt, press-conference transcript, Nov. 19, 1942; E. Roosevelt, TIR, cited (Ch. 16), p. 264.
14. London Daily Mail, Nov. 18, 1942.
15. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Oct. 25, 1942.
16. Chalmers Roberts, “Mrs. Roosevelt’s Visit to Britain,” confidential memorandum to Wallace Carroll written at the end of Mrs. Roosevelt’s trip.
17. London Times, Oct. 27, 1942.
18. Handwritten note from Adm. Harold R. Stark to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 27, 1942.
19. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Jan. 4, 1942.
20. E. Roosevelt, Diary; E. Roosevelt, TIR, p. 275.
21. Gallup poll, reported in the New York Times, Dec. 9, 1942.
22. E. Roosevelt, Diary; E. Roosevelt, TIR, p. 251; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Nov. 1, 1942.
23. Stimson, Diary, Nov. 20, 1942.
24. Letter from Sir Cecil Graves to Gilbert Winant, Dec. 2, 1942.
53. A CONSCIOUSNESS OF COLOR
1. Letter from Pearl Buck to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 18, 1941; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to R. J. Divine, Jan. 29, 1942.
2. Lash Diaries, Dec. 26, 1941.
3. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Alice Huntington, Jan. 3, 1942; letter from Joseph P. Lash to Trude Pratt, May 31, 1942.
4. Telegram from Pearl Buck et al. to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jan. 16, 1942.
5. Memorandum from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 11, 1942; Eleanor Roosevelt, review of Pearl Buck, American Unity and Asia (New York, 1942), in the New Republic, Aug. 3, 1942; letter from Pearl Buck to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 29, 1942.
6. Jane Plimpton was the Vassar student leader; the dinner exchange was reported by the author to Trude Pratt, May 31, 1942.
7. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Gil Harrison, June 23, 1942; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. M. Clark, Sept. 18, 1942; Walter White, speech at Madison Square Garden, June 16, 1942.
8. Robert Hopkins made a copy of his father’s memorandum available to Anna Roosevelt Halsted.
9. Eleanor Roosevelt’s comment on the Odell Waller case is quoted here from her letter to A. M. Kroeger, Aug. 20, 1942; Mrs. Oswald B. Lord, with the OCD in New York, described the attitude of the Negro leaders in her letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 8, 1942.
10. Letter from Pauli Murray to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 23, 1942, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Aug. 3, 1942.
11. Letter from Malvina Thompson to Steve Early, July 30, 1943; Howard W. Odum, report, “On Trying to A
nalyze Southern Racial Tensions . . . ,” 1943.
12. Odum, op. cit.; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Dowling, Dec. 31, 1942; letter from Ruby Black to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 6, 1943; letter from Will Alexander to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 16, 1943.
13. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, July 1, 1943.
14. Louisville Courier-Journal, July 2, 1943; letter from Trude Pratt to Joseph P. Lash, June 29, 1943.
15. Warren Brown, “Negro Looks at Negro Press,” Reader’s Digest, Jan., 1943; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White, Jan. 4, 1943, and White’s reply, Jan. 11, 1943.
16. Eleanor Roosevelt, “If I Were a Negro,” Negro Digest, Oct., 1943.
17. Letter from the Rev. Nelson to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 30, 1943, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Nov. 11, 1943.
18. Amsterdam News, Nov. 6, 1943; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to George Hawkins, Oct. 23, 1943; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Pauli Murray, July 26, 1943.
19. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, July 11, 1943.
20. Eleanor Roosevelt, unpublished article on Mme. Chiang Kai-shek.
21. Letter from Trude Pratt, who accompanied Mrs. Roosevelt, to Joseph P. Lash, Feb. 1, 1943.
22. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Feb. 1 and 12, 1943.
23. Ibid.
24. Letter from Trude Pratt to Joseph P. Lash, May 30, 1943.
25. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Feb. 17, 1943.
26. Raymond Clapper, in the New York World-Telegram, Feb. 20, 1943; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 8), Feb. 18, 1943; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Feb. 19, 1943.
27. Letter from Trude Pratt to Joseph P. Lash, March 3, 1943.
28. E. Roosevelt, TIR, cited (Ch. 16), p. 285.
29. Harris, Pearl S. Buck, cited (Ch. 31), p. 292; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White, Feb. 16, 1943.
30. Harris, pp. 292–93.
31. E. Roosevelt, TIR, p. 284; interview with Maureen Corr.
32. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Feb. 28, 1943; letter from Trude Pratt to Joseph P. Lash Feb. 24, 1943.
33. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, March 12, 1943; letter from Walter Judd to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 22, 1943; Joseph Alsop, quoted in Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, cited (Ch. 43), p. 731.
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