Miller, Mary, 26, 99
Miller, Simone, 39n
Mills, Harriet May, 101
Minneapolis Tribune, xix, 48n, 56
Mr. Choate (dog), 270
Monticello, Virginia, 49
Moran, Bill, 28–29
Morgan, Forbes, xviii, 189
Morgenthau, Elinor, 23, 26, 65, 74, 80, 134, 136, 137, 170, 242
Morgenthau, Henry, 36, 43, 53, 136, 137, 242, 246
Morse, Ellie. See Dickinson, Ellie Morse Mother’s Day stamp, 104
Mt. Vernon, Virginia, 58
Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 112
Mussolini, Benito, 192n
“My Day” column. See Newspaper columns by Eleanor Roosevelt
National Enquirer, xiv, xvn
National Housing Conference, 77
National Recovery Administration (NRA), 42, 43, 92n
National Symphony Orchestra, 91
National theatre, 38, 39n
National Women’s Press Association, 18
Nazi Germany, 212, 217, 228
Nelson, Billy, 123, 124
Nesbitt, Henrietta, 19, 23, 25, 209
New Deal, xvi
New Orleans, Louisiana, 96–97
Newspaper columns by Eleanor Roosevelt, xxiv, 64, 147, 177, 179, 182, 184, 229, 252, 286
Newsweek, xiv, xvn
New York Daily News, 73n
New York Herald Tribune, 45n, 86, 87
New York Post, xiv, xvn
New York Times, xv, 4, 45n, 206, 246
New York World’s Fair (1939), 194–198, 200, 202, 206, 216
New York World-Telegram, 271
New Zealand, 250–251
North American Newspaper Alliance, 64
Nutting, Elizabeth, 110
Office of Price Administration (OPA), 249
Olivier, Sir Laurence, 287n
Olson, Floyd, 53
Orlando, Florida, 75–76
Owens, Terry, 114
Parish, Henry, 66n, 115
Parish, Susie, 66, 73, 115
Patterson, Eleanor Medill, 73
Patterson, Joseph Medill, 73
Pearl Harbor, 240, 241
Pearson, Paul, 81
Pegler, Westbrook, 233
Pennsylvania Women, 77
Perkins, Frances, 18, 26, 38, 114
Phillips, William, 25
Pickett, Clarence, 74
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 87
Poland, invasion of, 217
Porter, Polly, 72–73
Presidential elections
1928, 4, 5
1932, 6, 8
1936, xviii, 168, 185–188, 191, 194, 195
1940, 226–233
1944, 259
1948, 276–277
1952, 280
Presque Isle, 31
Press conferences, xxiv, xxvi, 11, 12, 18, 44, 45, 67, 99, 179, 287
Prinz (dog), 5–6, 16, 20, 99, 105, 131, 182, 215, 219, 220, 238, 249–250, 270n
Prohibition, 57n
Prostitution, 97–98
Public Works Administration (PWA), 167n
Puerto Rico, 61, 72, 77, 83–88, 108n, 254
Queen Elizabeth (liner), 276
Radio broadcasts by Eleanor Roosevelt, 101n, 136, 147, 148, 179, 247–248
Rainey, Henry, 92–93
Read, Elizabeth, xviii–xx, 2, 5, 162, 192
Reader’s Digest, 208
Red House, West Virginia, 172
Relief programs, 34, 46–47, 53, 61n, 63, 68, 70–71, 83–87, 104, 112–113, 117, 129, 156–157, 168, 172–173, 176, 188
Reluctant First Lady (Hickok), xxii, 5, 88, 120, 121, 124, 199, 292
Reuther, Walter, 288, 292
Roddan, Eddie, 212–213
Rogers, Will, xviii, 66, 78
Roosevelt, Anna. See Halstead, Anna Roosevelt, Betsey, 16, 22, 36, 72, 98
Roosevelt, Betty, 102
Roosevelt, Elliott, 18–20, 22, 40, 58, 73, 74, 78, 95, 102–103, 137, 200, 201, 240, 242, 255, 260
Roosevelt, Faye Emerson, 260
Roosevelt, Franklin, Jr., 16, 38, 61, 99, 103, 149, 200, 240, 260n, 271
Roosevelt, Hall, 116, 118, 239, 240
Roosevelt, James, xx, 16–18, 21, 22, 95, 98, 149–151, 160, 200, 233n, 240, 260n
Roosevelt, John, 16, 81, 91, 94, 158, 175, 240, 260n, 271
Roosevelt, Ruth Chandler, 137
Roosevelt, Ruth Googins, 40, 102– 103, 137, 201, 242, 255, 256
Roosevelt, Sara Delano, 1, 16, 18, 19, 22, 60, 111, 112, 117, 149, 194, 215, 239
Roosevelt, Theodore, xiii, 31
Ross, Annie, 250
Ross, Ishbel, 196
Rossi, Angelo, 129
Rumsey, Mary, 178
Sacramento, California, 120–121
Sacramento Union, 121, 122
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 177
Salvation Army Christmas party, 60, 142
San Francisco, California, 116, 126, 129
San Francisco Chronicle, 88, 126
San Francisco Examiner, 122, 126
San Joaquin Valley, California, 132
Saturday Evening Post, 134, 135n, 153n, 154, 158, 171
Schall, Thomas, 105
Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr., xv
Schneiderman, Rose, 99–100
Schulman, Sam, 86, 88
Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 10, 198
Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, 165, 168–169, 177, 184n
Seagraves, David, 294
Seagraves, Eleanor (ER’s greatgranddaughter), 294
Seagraves, Eleanor Dall (Sisty) (ER’s granddaughter), 22, 35, 58, 60, 94, 117, 142, 181, 294–295
Seagraves, Nicholas, 294
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 181n
Sedalia Choir, 51
Selby Shoe Company, 147n
Shepperson, Gay, 68, 72
Shrine of Sainte Anne de Beaupré, 29–30
Simmons Mattress Company, 101n
Sinatra, Frank, 287n
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 43
Smith, Al, 4, 40, 50n
South America, 254
Soviet Union, 36, 37, 286
Spanish Civil War, 191–192
Speaking tours by Eleanor Roosevelt, 280–282, 286
Steel industry, 184
Strayer, Martha, 188
Subsistence homestead program, xxiv, 39–40, 44n, 74n, 109–110, 135n, 157, 161n, 162n, 172n
Sugar beet industry, 115, 117
Taft, Robert, 280
Technological advances, 184
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 112n, 113, 171n
This Is My Story (Eleanor Roosevelt), 194, 206, 275–276
Thompson, Malvina (Tommy), 16, 17, 19, 22, 23, 25, 26, 35, 39, 59, 60, 64, 65, 80, 91, 94, 96, 101, 109, 135, 136, 140–142, 154, 155, 157, 160–162, 171, 188, 192, 211, 217, 237, 246, 250, 252, 257, 258, 272, 276–281
Tillett, Gladys, 238
Time magazine, 37, 83–84, 88, 93
Tobacco Road (Caldwell), 111
Todhunter School, New York, xix, 5
Truman, Bess, 268, 269
Truman, Harry S., 263, 269, 274, 276, 277, 291
Tugwell, Florence, 136
Tugwell, Rex, 117–118, 136, 157
Turner, Francis, 173, 174
United Features syndication service, 177
United Jewish Appeal, 230
United Nations, 274, 275, 278, 280
United Press, 45n, 188n
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 275, 277n
Val-Kill Cottage, Hyde Park, xix, xxi, 10, 27, 37, 111, 140, 160, 269, 278, 284, 285
Val-Kill furniture, xix, 48n, 100n, 105, 131n, 294
Veterans bonuses, 92
Virgin Islands, 84, 86
Wallace, Henry, 229
Wallace, Ilo, 74
Walsh, Thomas, 18, 25
Warm Springs, Georgia, 38, 47–50, 67–68, 266
Warrenton, Virginia, 74
Washington By-Line (Furman), 277n
Washington Daily News, 188n
> Washington Herald, 87
Washington Post, xiv, xvn, 187n, 246
Washington Times-Herald, 73n
Weiss, Carl, 163
Whalen, Grover, 194–197
White, Walter, 101
Willkie, Wendell, 228, 229, 233
Wilmerding, Helen, 175
Wilson, Edith Bolling Gault, 147
Wilson, Hugh R., 212
Wilson, M.L., 74
Winship, Blanton, 108
Women’s Democratic News, xix
Women’s Liberation Movement, 171
Women’s Trade Union League, 99n, 140
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 156, 157, 167n, 172–173, 176, 188, 197
World War II, xvi, 217, 218, 223, 228, 240–242, 245–248, 250–257, 267
Yosemite National Park, xxvii, 116, 123–125, 151, 284
Youngstown, Ohio, 184
1 Edward Sigall, “Secret Romance of President Roosevelt’s Wife—The Untold Story,” National Enquirer, 13 November 1979, 1; Harriet Van Horne, “The truth about Eleanor Roosevelt!,” New York Post, 24 October 1979, 29; Haynes Johnson, “Spotlighting the Offstage Lives of Onstage People,” Washington Post, 28 October 1979, A-3; Dennis A. Williams, “The Letters of Mrs. FDR,” Newsweek, 5 November 1979, 50; Carolyn See, “Lorena Hickok: journalist with a friend in high places,” Los Angeles Times Book Review, 10 February 1980, 1; Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, “Books of The Times,” New York Times, 5 February 1980, C-9.
2 Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., “Eleanor Roosevelt and the Styles of Friendship,” Washington Post, 23 October 1979, C-1; Lerman quoted in Henry Mitchell and Megan Rosenfeld, “Eleanor Roosevelt and the Styles of Friendship,” Washington Post, 23 October 1979, C-4.
3 Doris Faber, The Life of Lorena Hickok, E.R.’s Friend (New York: Morrow, 1980), 176; Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume One: 1884-1933 (New York: Viking, 1992), 479.
4 Joseph P. Lash, Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1982); A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962 (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1984). Lash also wrote Eleanor and Franklin (New York: Norton, 1971) and Eleanor: The Years Alone (New York: Norton, 1972).
5 Eleanor to Lorena, 2 July 1936.
6 Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, 318.
7 On Lorena and Ellie, see Faber, Lorena Hickok, 61–69.
8 Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937), 325.
9 The words are French for “I love you and I adore you.”
10 Eleanor to Lorena, 6 March 1933.
11 Eleanor to Lorena, 22 November 1933.
12 Eleanor to Lorena, 25 November 1933.
13 Lorena to Eleanor, 31 August 1934; Eleanor to Lorena, 23 May 1934; Eleanor to Lorena, 25 April 1934; Eleanor to Lorena, 18 April 1934.
14 Lorena to Anna Roosevelt Halsted, 9 June 1966. Lorena and Esther Lape burned the letters at Esther’s estate in Connecticut after Eleanor died.
15 Lorena A. Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt: Reluctant First Lady (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1962); Roosevelt, This Is My Story; Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949). Reluctant First Lady was not a comprehensive biography of Eleanor’s entire life, focusing only on the late 1920s and early 1930s.
16 Lash, A World of Love, 116; Eleanor to Lorena, 23 December 1933; Eleanor to Lorena, undated 1934 letter the content of which indicates it was written in the fall.
17 Lorena to Kathryn Godwin (secretary to Federal Emergency Relief Administration director Harry Hopkins), 18 February 1934.
18 Eleanor to Lorena, 24 January 1934; Eleanor to Lorena, undated 1934 note the content of which indicates it was written the first week of October; Eleanor to Lorena, 23 December 1933; Eleanor to Lorena, 4 February 1934.
19 Eleanor to Lorena, 2 May 1935.
20 Eleanor to Lorena, 19 January 1938; Lorena to Eleanor, 1 November 1939; Lorena to Eleanor, 11 November 1940.
1 Ralph G. Martin, Cissy: The Extraordinary Life of Eleanor Medill Patterson (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979), 360.
2 Interview with Katherine Beebe Pinkham Harris by Shirley Biagi, Women in Journalism oral history project of the Washington Press Club Foundation, 22 September 1989 to 19 September 1990, Oral History Collection, Columbia University, New York City, 56, 114.
3 Lorena A. Hickok, “Drifted 22 Hours with Woman in Sea,” New York Times, 15 November 1928, 1. The story was an interview with a survivor of the cruise ship Vestris that ran into a storm and sank in the Atlantic, killing 100 passengers and crew members.
4 Hickok, Reluctant First Lady, 10–11; 16.
5 Jeannette Brice letter to Doris Faber, 7 November 1978, Doris Faber Papers, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.
6 Doris Faber notes from 15 November 1978 interview with Katherine Beebe, Box 3, Doris Faber Papers; Beebe oral history, 115.
7 Warner B. Ragsdale letter to Doris Faber, 13 December 1978, Doris Faber Papers.
8 Hickok, Reluctant First Lady, 38; 48; 38; 39; Eleanor to Lorena, 26 October 1932.
9 Hickok, Reluctant First Lady, 43.
10 Hickok Associated Press copy, September 1932, Hickok Papers; Hickok, Minneapolis Tribune, “‘First Lady’ Won’t Give Statement,” 9 November 1932, 1; “She’ll Be Just Mrs. Roosevelt,” 10 November 1932, 8; “New First Lady Even Tempered,” 12 November 1932, 7.
11 Hickok, Reluctant First Lady, 47–49.
12 Lorena to Bess Furman, undated, Box 27, Bess Furman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
13 Hickok, Reluctant First Lady, 49.
14 Hickok, Reluctant First Lady, 95–96.
15 Eleanor Roosevelt Engagement Book, Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.
1 During this nationwide radio broadcast, FDR announced that every bank in the country would be closed for the next four days as the first step in his effort to bring the country’s banking crisis under control.
2 Eleanor often referred to her son James as Jimmy.
3 Cermak had been injured during an attempted assassination of President-elect Roosevelt in Miami in February; on March 6, 1933, Cermak died of the wounds he had sustained in that incident.
4 FDR had designated Montana Senator Thomas Walsh his Attorney General, but Walsh died suddenly on his way to the inauguration.
5 FDR had appointed Frances Perkins the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet.
6 Eleanor had telephoned Lorena immediately after her first press conference, to report that it had gone well.
7 Isabella Selmes Greenway, a childhood friend of Eleanor’s who had been a bridesmaid at her wedding, had been elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona in 1932.
8 Eleanor was planning to see Lorena during a trip to New York the next week.
9 Eleanor originally had planned her trip to New York for the next Thursday but now had rescheduled it for two days earlier.
10 Previous occupants of the suite on the southwest corner of the White House where Eleanor was sleeping had used the larger room as their bedroom and the smaller one as a sitting room, but Eleanor reversed the two uses.
11 Jean Dixon was a long-time friend of Lorena’s.
12 Henrietta Nesbitt was the Hyde Park neighbor Eleanor had brought with her to the White House as head housekeeper.
13 Sara Delano Roosevelt was returning to Hyde Park.
14 The inauguration concert at Constitution Hall featured the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra with Arturo Toscanini conducting.
15 Elliott Roosevelt, after failing the entrance exam to Harvard, continued to have trouble getting his feet on the ground. He was planning to travel West in hopes of finding a career that suited him.
16 Louis Howe and his family as well as Missy LeHand all lived on the second floor of the White House with the Roosevelts.
17 Eleanor and Lorena had agreed to read books simultaneously so they could discuss them by letter or, when possible, in person.
18 Bess Furman was the Associated Pres
s reporter covering the first lady.
19 Oliver Wendell Holmes had been a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court until he retired in 1932.
20 Elliott Roosevelt had no job or solid prospects in the West.
21 Eleanor had sprained her finger while moving furniture.
22 Gus Gennerich was a New York state trooper who had been one of Governor Roosevelt’s bodyguards in Albany; the president brought him to the White House.
23 Anna’s daughter Eleanor, nicknamed Sisty, was six; her son Curtis, nicknamed Buzzie, was three.
24 John Boettiger was a Chicago Tribune reporter who was romantically involved with Eleanor’s daughter, even though Anna was still married to Curtis Dall.
25 Ike Hoover was the long-time chief usher at the White House who had known Eleanor when she visited her Uncle Teddy there.
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