Eleanor and Franklin

by Joseph P. Lash

  Hughes, Justice Charles Evans, 230, 252

  Hull, Cordell, 360, 434, 486, 583, 726, 727, 740, 785, 808, 866, 889, 909

  Hull, Mrs. Cordell, 751

  Hunting Big Game in the Eighties (Elliott Roosevelt), 16, 34

  Ickes, Harold L., 487, 582, 588, 593, 738, 740, 784, 786, 787, 799

  on Eleanor’s relationship with Hopkins, 638

  on establishment of OCD, 815

  on Franklin and World Court issue, 709, 710

  and Marian Anderson concert, 666–67, 668

  mistrusts Eleanor’s influence, 574

  and 1936 campaign, 558, 559

  racial issue and, 659

  on Roosevelt family debate, 613

  seeks Eleanor’s patronage, 577–78

  and Subsistence Homestead Program, 495–96, 499, 501, 502, 504, 505, 507–8, 512–13, 514

  Ickes, Jane, 575

  Ilma, Viola, 688–89, 835

  International Student Service, 776

  It’s Up to the Women (E. Roosevelt), 357, 477, 484, 489, 490, 638

  Ivens, Joris, 720

  Jackson, Andrew, 226, 454, 464, 783

  Jackson, Gardner, 790

  Jackson, Hugh, 822

  Jackson, Robert H., 678

  Jacobs, Mrs. Solon R., 360

  James, Henry, 92

  James, William, 108, 480, 492

  Jennie, Aunt, see Delano, Mrs. Warren

  Joffre, Marshal, 255

  Johnson, Charles, 648

  Johnson, Hiram, 707, 708, 709

  Johnson, Hugh, 496, 548, 583

  Johnson, Louis, 574

  Johnson, Mordecai, 648

  Johnson, Mrs. Alma W., 540

  Johnson, Nelson T., 873

  Johnston, Alva, 623

  Jones, Jesse, 595, 913–14

  Jones, Sam, 561

  Judd, Walter, 865

  Jusserand, Jules, 233, 255

  Kassie, Aunt, see Collier, Mrs. Price

  Keen, Dr. William W., 332, 333–34

  Keliher, Alice V., 544

  Keller, John, 547n

  Kelley, Florence, 388–89

  Kellogg, Paul, 760, 822–23

  Kelly, Edward J., 793

  Kenny, Robert W., 724

  Kent, Frank R., 758

  Kenyon, Judge Dorothy, 565

  Kerr, Mrs. Florence, 812, 814, 816

  Keynes, John Maynard, 590, 698

  King Mackenzie, 852

  Kleeman, Rita Halle, 645

  Knox, Frank, 671, 677, 733, 834

  Knudsen, William S., 677

  Kraus, Charlotte, 739

  Krech, Margaret (Mrs. William Sheffield Cowles, Jr.; Bobbie), 359

  Krishna Menon, Vengalil Krishnan, 845

  Krock, Arthur, 551, 576, 594, 716–17, 757

  Kropotkin, Princess Alexandra, 757

  Kuhn, Mrs. Hartman, 126, 165, 166, 199, 764

  Laas, William, 537, 631

  LaFollette, Robert, 362

  LaGuardia, Fiorello, 676, 677, 799, 802, 831

  dismissed as OCD head, 825–26

  as head of OCD, 814–16, 823–26

  Laidlaw, Mrs. James Lees, 348

  Lamont, Mrs. Thomas W., 349

  Lamont, Thomas W., 750–51

  Landis, James M., 821, 823n, 825–26, 827, 830–31

  Landon, Alfred M., 556, 559, 563, 564, 565, 733

  Lane, Anne, 550

  Lane, Franklin K., 233, 253, 267, 290, 307, 321, 495

  Langdon, Sophie, 73

  Lang John, 682

  Lansbury, George, 713–14

  Lansing, Robert, 248, 290

  Lape, Esther, 351–53, 354, 357, 365, 381, 397, 433, 570, 599, 640, 750–51, 781, 802, 895, 909, 923

  and Eleanor’s relationship with, 322

  and fight against AMA for social health legislation, 586–88

  World Court issue and, 706–9

  Lash, Joseph P., 430, 610, 678, 698, 761–64, 767, 877–79

  Lasser, David, 766

  Lauder, Sir Harry, 849

  Law, Nigel, 274

  Lawrence, John S., 365

  Leach, Agnes, 394, 409, 428, 434, 558, 602

  Leach, Henry Goddard, 428, 500, 540, 680

  League of Nations, 350, 352, 354, 432, 433, 434, 435, 706, 710

  see also Roosevelt, Eleanor; Wilson, Woodrow

  Leahy, William D., 244

  Ledyard, Ruth, 384

  Lee, John, 847

  LeHand, Marguerite (Missy), 334, 336, 365, 366, 368, 400, 407, 425, 427, 428, 436–37, 438, 441, 448, 464, 513, 589, 608, 636, 787, 892, 907

  controls executive side of White House, 634

  death of, 912

  hired by Franklin, 319

  on Hopkins, 637

  relationship with Franklin, Eleanor and, 640–44, 645

  Lehman, Herbert H., 395, 402, 404, 442, 883

  Lehman, Irving, 405

  Leigh, W. Colston, 529–30, 532

  Lenroot, Katherine, 578, 580

  Lerner, Max, 723

  Leslie, Mrs. Frank, 387

  Levenson, Eleanor, 757

  Lewis, John L., 672, 770, 776, 790, 864

  Lilienthal, David E., 522–23, 916n

  “Limps,” the, 117

  Lincoln, Abraham, 5, 31, 464, 668

  Lindley, Betty, 526, 775, 820, 822, 827

  Lindley, Ernest K., 402, 425, 526

  Lippmann, Walter, 361, 395, 434, 770

  Littell, Norman, 763

  Litvinov, Ivy, 751

  Litvinov, Maxim, 706, 750–51

  Livingston, Chancellor, 18

  Livingston, Mrs. Robert, 339–40

  Livingstons, the, 17–18

  Lodge, Henry Cabot, 289, 351

  Loeb, James, 897

  Lomax, Alan, 738

  Long, Breckinridge, 809

  Long, Huey, 548, 550

  Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 3, 29, 52, 88–89, 124, 129, 154, 155, 163, 173, 217, 263, 289, 313, 352, 446, 452, 561, 598, 790

  account of Chevy Chase Club incident, 300

  anti-New Deal cracks of infuriate Franklin, 644

  asked to be bridesmaid by Eleanor, 170

  and canteen work (World War I), 264

  childhood relationship with Eleanor, 38

  as debutante, 114

  Eleanor a “do-gooder,” 12

  Eleanor lunches with, 644

  on Eleanor’s autobiography, 545

  Eleanor’s thrust at for attack on Franklin (1936 campaign), 564

  father quoted on her social life, 119

  jealous of Eleanor as First Lady, 472–73

  in lime light due to father’s presidency, 108, 109, 113

  Lucy Mercer and, 278

  marriage of, 189

  as newspaper columnist, Eleanor contrasted with, 537, 539

  reaction to Eleanor’s engagement, 169

  rebels against family, visits with Eleanor, 88–89

  Longworth, Nicholas, 189, 361

  Looker, Earle, 423–24

  Lovett, Dr. Robert W., 333–36, 338

  Low, Seth, 109

  Lowen, Irving S., 898–900, 901, 902

  Luce, Henry, 864

  Ludlow, Edward H. (great-grandfather), 18, 31

  Ludlow, Elizabeth Livingston (great-grandmother), 18

  Ludlow, Mrs. Edward H. (Great-Aunt Maggie), 52, 62, 170, 172

  Ludlows, the, 17–18, 19

  Ludwig, Emil, 643

  Lynch, Thomas, 307, 308, 319, 346, 364, 418

  MacArthur, Gen. Douglas, 745, 874–75

  MacDonald, Ishbel, 470

  MacDonald, John Ramsay, 469, 470, 753

  Mack, John, 205, 207, 307, 346, 805

  MacLeish, Archibald, 269, 314, 786, 911, 918

  Macy, Louise, see Hopkins, Louise

  Madeleine (nurse), 75, 105

  Magee, Ralph, 467

  Magidoff, Nila, 919

  Mahoney, Helena T., 367

  Maisky, Ivan, 865

  Mallet, Hector, 83

  Mann, Thomas, 716, 72
8–29, 742, 743

  Marbury, Elizabeth, 360, 399, 425

  Margaret, Princess, 839

  Marié, Peter, 27

  Marsh, Reginald, 654

  Marshall, Gen. George C., 834, 918

  Marshall, Thomas Riley, 231, 246

  Marshall, Thurgood, 669

  Martha (of Norway), 862, 863, 864, 891, 892, 912

  Martin, Prestonia Mann, 482–84, 680

  Martineau, Cyril, 312

  Martineau, Mauriel, 285, 286, 328, 471

  Marvin, George, 353, 391, 426

  Marvin, Langdon P., 213, 217, 334, 336

  Mary (of England), 846, 847

  Masaryk, Jan, 846

  Mason, Lucy Randolph, 585

  Matthews, J. B., 762

  Maude, Aunt, see Gray, Maude; Hall, Maude

  McAdoo, William G., 254, 308, 312, 436–37

  McAllister, Dorothy, 583

  McCabe, “Packy,” 216

  McCarthy, Charles, 313, 319

  McCloskey, Mark, 687, 695, 835

  McCook, Janet, 159–60, 188

  McCormick, Anne O’Hare, 535

  McDonald, James G., 733

  McEachern, Elspeth, 179–80

  McGrady, Edward, 583

  McIntire, Dr. Ross T., 587, 787, 804, 805, 889, 890, 919, 920

  McIntyre, Marvin, 353, 465, 468, 561, 567, 648, 651, 656, 657, 694

  McKellar, Kenneth, 501

  McKelvey, Thelma, 775

  McKinley, William, 746

  McLaughlin, Kathleen, 739

  McMichael, Jack, 763, 769, 771

  McMillin, Lucile Foster, 486

  McNary, Charles, 707

  McNutt, Paul V., 701, 814, 821

  Meloney, Mrs. William B., 757, 782

  Mencken, H. L., 701

  Mercer, Lucy Page, 270–71, 274–79, 293, 310, 373, 422, 430, 449, 479, 543, 889, 893, 911, 921, 923

  Meyer, Agnes, 450

  Michell, Lucy Sprague, 512

  Michelson, Charles, 555, 556, 557, 559, 560

  Milholland, Inez, 213

  Miller, Adolph, 233, 336

  Miller, Earl, 425–28, 544, 599, 608

  Miller, Emma Guffey, 422, 555, 583

  Miller, Izetta Jewel, 483

  Miller, Mary, 336, 550

  Miller, Nathan L., 323

  Millin, Sarah Gertrude, 751

  Millis, Walter, 786

  Mills, Harriet May, 327, 345, 357

  Mio, see Robbins, Muriel

  Missy, see LeHand, Marguerite

  Mittie, see Roosevelt, Martha Bulloch

  Molotov, Pauline Z., 751

  Molotov, Vyacheslav M., 864–65

  Montgomery, Florence, 84

  Morgan, Forbes, 114, 154, 597

  Morgan, Geraldine, 146

  Morgan, Mary Newbold, 384

  see also Newbold, Mary

  Morgenthau, Elinor, 346, 357, 360, 385, 391, 392, 398, 419, 428, 466, 575, 599, 633, 672, 703, 798, 919

  and divided-White-House-loyalties issue, 639

  and Eleanor’s resignation from Colony Club, 665

  in Gridiron Widows parties’ skit, 629–30

  Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 312, 346, 366, 373, 391, 408, 412, 567, 577, 636, 805, 829, 920

  discusses Germany’s future with Franklin, 905

  and divided-White-House-loyalties issue, 639

  in London with Eleanor, 844

  Morton, Edith, 232

  Morton, Levi P., 232

  Morton Robert, 648

  Moses, Robert, 402–3, 404, 405

  Moskowitz, Belle, 391, 394, 402–3, 404, 405, 412

  Muir, Raymond, 466

  Munn, Mary, 274, 275

  Murphy, Charles F., 211, 213, 309, 358–59

  Murphy, Frank, 594, 761, 819

  Murphy, Robert, 905

  Murray, Pauli, 662–63, 859

  Mussolini, Benito, 680, 710, 730, 736, 737, 786

  My Boy Franklin (S. D. Roosevelt), 146

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 650–51, 653–54, 667, 668

  National Industrial Recovery Act, 477, 480, 486, 799

  National Youth Administration, 681, 684–87, 690, 692, 698, 700, 701, 702

  see also Roosevelt, Eleanor

  Neal, Claude, 653

  Nesbitt, Henrietta, 452, 466, 633

  Newbold, Mary, 113, 145, 188

  see also Morgan, Mary Newbold

  Newbold, Thomas Jefferson, 207, 309, 330

  Newman, Pauline, 491

  Nicholson, Mrs. Jesse W., 390, 392

  Niles, David, 790

  Norrie, Margaret, 326, 347, 360

  Norris, George, 495, 795, 799

  Norton, Mary T., 393

  O’Connor, Julia, 291

  O’Daniel, W. Lee, 592

  O’Day, Caroline, 385, 388, 398, 419, 558, 667, 734

  Odum, Howard W., 856

  Office of Civilian Defense, 814, 815, 816, 820

  see also Roosevelt, Eleanor

  Olaf (of Norway), 846, 863

  O’Laughlin, John Callan, 594, 828

  Olvaney, George, 395

  O’Reilly, Leonora, 291

  Osborn, William Church, 215, 216, 245, 266

  Osborne, Thomas Mott, 210, 216, 218–19

  Osthagen, Henry, 606

  Oursler, Fulton, 642–44, 645, 683–84

  Overlock, Dorothy, 820

  Overstreet, Bonaro W., 807

  Paish, Sir George, 717

  Palmer, A. Mitchell, 295, 308

  Palmer, Charles F., 812

  Parish, Henry, 51, 121, 157, 168, 214, 234, 599

  Parish, Susan (Cousin Susie), 51, 105, 134, 137, 152, 154–55, 156, 163, 168, 170, 171, 187, 210, 214–15, 258, 372, 384, 599

  Eleanor rebels against, 302

  objects to Eleanor’s settlement-house work, 121

  self-preoccupation of irks Eleanor, 234

  as traditionalist as Sara, 190

  Parker, Alice, 127

  Parsons, Frances Theodora, 17, 22, 238

  Passavant, Carola von, see Schaeffer-Bernstein, Carola von

  Patri, Angelo, 375

  Patterson, Capt. Joseph, 545

  Patterson, Cissy, 474, 631

  Patterson, Robert M., 671, 901

  Patton, James, 896

  Peabody, George Foster, 367

  Peabody, Rev. Endicott, 118, 147–48, 168, 296, 334, 666

  Pearson, Drew, 532, 668

  Peek, George, 574

  Pegler, Westbrook, 538, 828, 831

  Perkins, Frances W., 350, 403–5, 470, 486, 488, 496, 572, 747, 748, 761, 788, 789, 793, 794, 826

  in Consumers League, difficulties with Franklin, 213

  eulogy on Eleanor at 1936 Democratic convention, 557

  periodic campaigns against, 583–85

  and plan to overhaul public-employment service, 419

  racial issue and, 650

  and youth-movement question, 684

  Personal Letters (F. D. Roosevelt), 281

  Peter (of Yugoslavia), 846

  Peterson, Cecil, 877

  Phillips, Caroline, 233, 237, 238, 246, 247, 248, 282, 341, 406, 428, 550, 750

  see also Drayton, Caroline

  Phillips, Christopher, 613

  Phillips, William, 232, 233–34, 244, 245–47, 248, 272, 307, 406, 428

  Pickett, Clarence, 493, 497, 498–99, 500, 503, 505–6, 579, 648, 713, 714–15, 716–17, 721

  Pilat, Oliver, 776

  Pinchot, Leila, 822

  Pittman, Key, 707

  Polier, Justine Wise, 733, 822

  Polk, Lily, 196, 238

  Polly, see Delano, Laura

  Popular Front, 754, 757, 759, 760

  Powell, Rev. Adam Clayton, 857

  Pratt, Mrs. John, 347

  Pratt, Trude, 608, 860, 905

  Prenosil, Stanley W., 391

  Price, Byron, 453

  Prohibiting Poverty (Martin), 482–83, 680

  Putnam, George Palmer, 462

  Pynchon, Charles F.,
504, 510

  Rainey, Dr. Homer P., 686

  Randolph, A. Philip, 676–77

  Rantoul, Lois, 291

  Raset, Zena, 819

  Raskob, John J., 397, 548, 561

  Rayburn, Sam, 559

  Read, Elizabeth, 353–54, 357, 381, 599, 604

  and Eleanor’s relationship with, 322

  Reading, Lady Stella, 265, 812–13, 821, 822, 836, 837, 839, 848

  Reeves Floyd, 698

  Regler, Gustave, 722

  Reid, Helen, 795

  Reid, Jean, 119, 121, 130

  Reid, Mrs. Whitelaw, 287

  Reid, Whitelaw, 119, 130

  Reuther, Walter, 894, 897, 898

  Rhodes, June Hamilton, 393, 458

  Richardson, Margaret (Mrs. Hall Roosevelt), 215, 223

  Richberg, Donald, 650

  Riley, Betty, see Roosevelt, Betty

  Rios, Señora de los, 722, 724

  Ritchie, Albert, 548

  Robbins, Muriel (Moo), 129, 130, 131, 158, 167, 170, 190, 194

  Robbins, Warren Delano, 131, 172, 446

  Roberts, Chalmers, 842, 848, 849

  Robeson, Paul, 895

  Robins, Mrs. Raymond, 291

  Robinson, Corinne (aunt), 3–4, 5, 12, 22, 49, 55, 65, 68, 69, 109, 119, 122, 124, 126, 132–33, 152, 163, 164, 165, 178, 187, 206, 313, 472

  on Eleanor at Allenswood, 102, 103

  Elliott’s French mistress writes to, 69–70

  Lucy Mercer affair and, 278

  reaction to Eleanor’s engagement, 169

  Robinson, Corinne (cousin), see Alsop, Mrs. Joseph

  Robinson, Douglas, 49, 65, 178, 257

  Robinson, Douglas, Jr., 190

  Robinson, Helen, see Roosevelt, Helen

  Robinson, Joseph, 579, 651, 652, 707

  Robinson, Theodore Douglas, 113, 163, 178, 187–88, 192, 195, 199, 205, 206, 215

  Roche, Josephine, 587

  Rockefeller, Nelson, 811

  Roddan, Edward L., 555, 560, 568

  Rodman, Selden, 797

  Rogers, Edith Nourse, 733

  Rogers, Edmund, 190

  Rogge, O. John, 594–95

  Rohde, Ruth Bryan, 593

  Roosevelt, Alice, see Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

  Roosevelt, Alice Lee, 29

  Roosevelt, Anna (Mrs. William Sheffield; Aunt Bamie or Bye), 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 14, 16, 28, 29, 37, 38, 65, 88, 89, 90, 100, 102, 105, 109, 117, 158, 160, 165, 167, 170–71, 178, 205, 206, 213, 216, 220, 221, 233, 608

  and Anna Hall Roosevelt’s decision concerning children, 56

  assists at Eleanor’s birth, 29

  with Elliott at Mariengrund sanitarium, 45

  and Elliott’s separation from wife, 49, 50, 51

  Elliott turns against, 63

  Franklin a favorite of, 125

  Franklin and Eleanor stay with, 229

  helps adjudge Elliott insane, 46

  her at-homes set example for Eleanor, 118

  influence of on Eleanor, 288

  reaction to Eleanor’s engagement, 169

  Theodore’s visits to, 118

  on Washington ritual of social calls, 226

  Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor (daughter), 179, 195, 196, 203, 259, 280, 294, 312, 331, 341–42, 351, 364, 396, 427, 441, 445, 457, 467, 543, 544, 570, 599, 608, 612, 614–15, 616, 618, 620, 624, 629, 633, 782, 784, 801, 818–19, 884, 907, 911, 919, 920