by Susan Quinn
in West Virginia, 93–99
WPA mismanagement observed by, 140–41
Hickok, Myrtle, 52
Hickok, Ruby, see Claff, Ruby Hickok
Hiroshima, atomic bombing of, 313
Hitler, Adolf, 198, 200, 201, 206, 211, 228, 246, 272, 298, 306, 383n
Holland, German invasion of, 218
Holocaust, 246, 272–73, 326, 383n
Holt, Alicent, 148–49, 175
Hoover, Herbert, 13, 35, 36
Hoover, Ike, 81
Hoover, Lou, 154
Hopkins, Diana, 82, 251
Hopkins, Harry, 3, 4, 93, 112, 119, 134, 144, 148, 199, 212, 215, 238, 241, 246, 251, 259, 268, 292, 346, 354
ambitious social program of, 136
Gellhorn hired by, 142
Hick’s work for, see Hickok, Lorena “Hick,” New Deal field work of
New Deal relief programs overseen by, 82
at 1940 Democratic convention, 222–23, 224
as White House resident, 82, 224
as WPA head, 137
Hopkins, Louise Mary, 259, 292
House of Representatives, U.S., Labor Committee of, 254–55
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 191, 210–11
Howard University, 114
Howe, Louis, 15, 37, 40, 74, 97, 118–19, 232, 259
ER’s friendship with, 12–13, 75, 97, 131
and FDR’s 1932 campaign, 13
Hick and, 97
as White House resident, 82
Hull, Cordell, 240
Human Rights Commission, 317, 320, 321, 325–26
Humphrey, Hubert, 322
Hunting Big Game in the Eighties: The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt, Sportsman, 64
Hurok, Sol, 209
Hyde Park, N.Y., 284
ER’s burial at, 350
ER’s home (converted factory) at, 183, 188, 205, 221, 224, 231, 297, 311–12
FDR’s burial at, 306
Springwood (Roosevelt mansion) at, 18, 30, 76, 154, 155, 243
Top Cottage at, 260, 312, 336
Val-Kill cottage at, 18, 21, 30, 76–77, 78, 158, 179, 182–83, 186–87
Hyde Park Historical Society, 357
Hyde Park Playhouse, 341
Ickes, Harold, 117, 136–37, 163, 209, 222, 228
India, ER’s visit to, 331–32
Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, 163
Interior Department, U.S., 119
International Bridge, 190
In Which We Serve (film), 275
isolationism, 196–97, 205, 206, 229, 246, 263
Israel, 331
Italy, 196, 198
Allied invasion of, 277
Ivens, Joris, 198
Janeway, Elizabeth, 327
Japan, 278
atomic bombing of, 313
Pearl Harbor attack of, 246–47
Jerusalem, 331
Jessel, George, 287
Jews:
evicted from homes in Germany, 200
Holocaust and, 246, 272–73, 326
in Soviet Union, 343
John Brown’s Body (Benét), 87, 114
Johnson, Hiram, 201
Johnson, Lyndon B., 353
Jones, Henry, 271
Joseph, Nannine, 333, 345
Jouvenal, Bertrand de, 142
Jungle Book (Kipling), 321
Justice Department, U.S., 217
Kahn, E. J., 329
Kaiser shipyards, 261
Kavars, Linda, 358
Kazin, Alfred, 160
Keller, Helen, 341–42, 349, 354, 355, 387n
Kelly, Ed, 223
Kennedy, David, 300
Kennedy, John F., 349
assassination of, 353
ER and, 347–48
Kennedy, Joseph, 347
Kent, Rockwell, 195
Kerr, Florence, 253
Khrushchev, Nikita, ER and, 342–44
Kidd, Gordon, 350, 354
King, Mackenzie, 264
Kipling, Rudyard, 321
Klots, Allen, 353
Knox, Frank, 246
Kresse, Al, 184
Krock, Arthur, 36
Ladies’ Home Journal, 170, 315
ER’s column in, 326–27
LaGuardia, Fiorello, 247
Landon, Alf, 150, 151
Landon, Theo, 150
Lape, Esther, 73–74, 113, 159, 189, 258, 295, 312, 348, 351
Lash, Joseph, 244, 312
ER’s relationship with, 211–12, 221, 237, 252, 257–58, 278–79, 281–82, 284, 286, 296, 318, 340–41, 345
FBI’s surveillance of, 278–79
on Guadalcanal, 278, 279, 281–82, 284
Trude and, see Lash, Trude
Lash, Trude, 237, 258, 279, 296, 312, 318, 345, 348
League of Nations, 197, 320
League of Women Voters, 73, 234
Leahy, Bill, 265–66
LeHand, Marguerite “Missy,” 21–22, 74, 75, 78, 118, 188
half of FDR’s estate left to, 259
strokes of, 259
White House bedroom of, 157, 259
as White House resident, 82, 259
Lehman, Herbert, 20, 172, 383n
Lehrman, Rhoda, 355
Lewis, Edith, 159
Lewis, John L., 228
Life of Lorena Hickok, The: E.R.’s Friend (Faber), 5–6
Lincoln, Abraham, 353
Lincoln Memorial, Anderson concert at, 209–10
Lindbergh, Charles, 196
Lindbergh kidnapping, 42–43, 60, 85
Lippmann, Walter, 36
Logan County, W. Va., 98–99
London, Blitz in, 229–30, 267–68
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 40, 71–72
Lorena Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt: A Love Story (Bond), 357–58
Lowitt, Richard, 354–55
lynchings, 114
MacArthur, Douglas, 253
McBride, Mary Margaret, 350
McCafferty, Lottie, 53, 148
McCallister, Dorothy, 254
McCall’s, 81, 327
McCarran, Pat, 339
McCarthy, Joseph, 339, 340
McCarthyism, 6, 347
see also anti-Communism
MacCracken, Henry, 190
MacDuffie, Elizabeth, 162
McIntyre, Ross, 292–93, 303, 304
MacLeish, Archibald, 330
McMichael, Jack, 215–16
Man Who Came to Dinner, The (Kaufman and Hart), 82–83
Marie, Queen of Romania, 196
Marines, U.S., 239
Marrakech, Morocco, 276
Marshall, George C., 265, 271
Martha, Crown Princess of Norway, 259–60
Martin, Joseph, 229
Melba, Nellie, 58
Mencken, H. L., 228
Mercer, Lucy, see Rutherfurd, Lucy Mercer
Michelson, Charlie, 215, 222, 227, 232, 233–34
military, U.S., racism in, 270–72
Miller, Earl, 20–21, 44, 130, 131, 147, 184, 258
Milwaukee Sentinel, 17, 47
Minneapolis Tribune, 16, 41, 42, 58–60, 100, 112
Minnesota, University of, 58, 60
Mitchell, Charles E., 47
Moley, Raymond, 44
Moore, Augusta, 162
Moore, Marianne, 160
Morgantown, W. Va., 93, 94, 98
Morgenthau, Elinor, 245, 296
Morgenthau, Henry, 295
Mount Mansfield, 87
Murder for Pleasure (
Haycraft), 180
Murrow, Edward R., 270, 272–73
Mussolini, Benito, 196, 198, 228, 277
Myers, JoAnne, 358
NAACP, 114, 208
Nagasaki, atomic bombing of, 313
National Recovery Administration (NRA), 151, 172, 256
Navy, U.S., 239
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 332
Neil, Eddie, 199–200
Nelson, Donald, 263
Neutrality Acts, 198
New Deal, 3, 82, 119, 151, 216, 254, 262, 291–92
1934 election and, 133, 136
1942 election and, 263
resettlement projects in, 96–98
Supreme Court and, 151, 172, 256
wartime deemphasis of, 253
see also specific agencies and programs
New York Democratic Committee, 334
Women’s Division of, 75, 77
New Yorker, 196, 329
New York State:
governor’s mansion of, 153
1924 gubernatorial election in, 76
New York Times, 36, 38, 61, 134, 151, 154, 180, 218, 222, 223, 228, 234–35, 243, 290, 355
New York Times Book Review, 327
New York World’s Fair (1939), 193–96, 201
ER and, 193–95
Hick’s PR job at, 169–70, 173, 174, 193–94, 195, 212–14
Nineteenth Amendment, 73
Nixon, Richard, 6, 363n
Normandy invasion, 283, 288
Norris, George, 227
North Africa, Allied invasion of, 264–66, 267, 269, 270, 272, 273
Norton, Mary, 263, 297–98, 315, 316
Hick and, 254, 255, 256, 333–34
Norway, Nazi invasion of, 218
Nouméa, New Caledonia, 279–80
Nourmahal, 36, 37
O’Day, Caroline, 133–34, 136
Office of Civilian Defense (OCD), 270
ER’s job at, 245–46, 247, 253
O’Heavy, Seumas, 191
Olav V, King of Norway, 260
Olivia (Bussy), 68–69
Olson, Floyd, 100
O’Malley, Mrs. Tom, 55–57
O’Neill, Eugene, 160
One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression (Lowitt and Beasley, eds.), 355
Overlord, Operation, 283, 288
Pacific, World War II in, 272, 299
ER’s tour of, 278, 279–83
Guadalcanal in, 278, 279, 281–82, 284
U.S. setbacks in, 259
Pacific Fleet, U.S., 247
Pakistan, 331
Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi, 332
Paris, Allied liberation of, 288
peace movement, 134, 197–98, 206, 215–18, 282
Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on, 246–47
Pearson, Drew, 270
Pegler, Westbrook, 238, 253, 282, 340
Pendergast, Tom, 289
Perkins, Frances, 134, 224, 226
Picasso, Pablo, 198
Pickett, Clarence, 94, 96, 97, 119
Poland, 201, 272, 347
Porter, Polly, 86, 159, 233
Portland, Oreg., 128–29
Pratt, Trude, see Lash, Trude
Prescott, Ariz., 13–14, 15, 97
press, 12, 14, 36, 38
ER and, 31, 106–8, 123–24, 128–29, 145
Hick’s career with, 1, 3–4, 16, 42–43, 47, 49, 57–61, 107–8, 346
women in politics as portrayed by, 234–35
women reporters in, 107–8
Preston County, W. Va., 96
Prinz (Hick’s dog), 25–26, 43, 83, 121, 179, 231, 317
Public Works Administration (PWA), 117, 137, 163
Puerto Rican Reconstruction Administration, 119
Puerto Rico, 103, 105–10, 119, 285–86
Quakers, 94, 96, 144
Quebec Conference, 277, 278, 279
racism, 115–17, 207
of DAR, 208–10
ER’s encounters with, 113–14
of Hick, 111–13
in U.S. military, 270–72
Ragsdale, Walter B. “Rags,” 14, 16–17
Randall’s Island, 190
Raset, Zena, 244
Rayburn, Sam, 289
Read, Elizabeth, 73–74, 159, 189
Red Cross, 3, 72, 75, 280
Red Cross Clubs, 280, 281
refugees, ER and, 314–15
Reluctant First Lady (Hickok), 346
Republican Party, Republicans, 134, 197, 263, 290
Resettlement Administration (RA), 256
Reuben James, USS, sinking of, 246
Reuther, Walter, 349, 353, 355
Riley, Kathy, 6
Robbins, Hardie, 273
Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 69–70
Robinson, Edward G., 262–63
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C., 44–45
Roosevelt, Alice Hall, 64, 65
Roosevelt, Anna, 71, 118, 158, 183, 185, 188–89, 278, 279, 329, 347
Boettiger’s affair with and marriage to, 17–18, 84, 126, 145, 292, 336
Dall’s divorce from, 17, 30, 84, 102, 126, 145, 336
ER’s relationship with, 304
and FDR’s affair with Rutherfurd, 296, 304, 306
and FDR’s illness, 292–93
FDR’s relationship with, 292, 295, 296
Hick and, 352
as White House resident, 292
at Yalta Conference, 299, 343
Roosevelt, Anna “Auntie Bye,” 40, 67
Roosevelt, Belle, 162–63, 294
Roosevelt, Betsey Cushing, 238
Roosevelt, Betty, 84–85
Roosevelt, Bill, 85
Roosevelt, Curtis “Buzzie,” 157, 158, 176, 184, 252
Roosevelt, Daniel, 194
Roosevelt, David, 186
Roosevelt, Edith, 13
Roosevelt, Eleanor:
as acute observer, 89
as adept at learning from experience, 113
in Al Smith’s 1924 gubernatorial campaign, 76
at American Association of the United Nations, 339
anti-Semitism of, 113
Arab countries visited by, 331
Arthurdale and, 4, 96–98
Atlantic Charter and, 242
Auntie Bye and, 40, 67
at Birmingham Human Welfare conference, 207–8
birth of, 64
bodyguards refused by, 38
in break with Cook and Dickerson, 184–89, 207
Buick roadster of, 81, 85, 86, 88, 94
at Campobello, 129–31
car accident of, 318
Chautauqua speech of, 88–89
childhood of, 2, 23, 28–29, 32, 63
and children’s problems, 312, 336
Christmas celebrations and, 157–58, 248–49, 251, 272–73
Churchill and, 251–52, 268–69
civil rights and, 172
Cook’s friendship with, 19, 30–31, 44, 75–79, 131, 146–47, 182–84, 345
and DAR banning of Anderson, 208–10
death of, 349
declining health of, 318, 346–47, 348
and Democratic Women’s Division, 232–33, 339
Dickerman’s friendship with, 19, 30–31, 44, 75–79, 146, 182–84, 345
drinking disliked by, 12, 61
education of, 67–70, 267
emotional reserve of, 3, 79, 83, 130, 139–40, 157
father’s relationship with, 63, 64–65
FBI file on, 159
in FDR’s 1932 campaign, 20
and FDR’s
affair with Lucy Rutherfurd, 39–41, 72, 84, 297, 304
FDR’s death and, 303–7
and FDR’s declining health, 295, 296, 297
FDR’s engagement to, 71
FDR’s polio and, 12, 27, 74–75, 131
and FDR’s reversal of James’s appointment, 146
feminism and, 67, 72–73, 88–89, 171
First Lady duties of, 1, 13, 28, 110, 118, 129, 133, 171, 190
as “First Lady of the World,” 331–32
first press conference of, 33
frugality of, 86
funeral of, 349–50
Grandmother Hall and, 18, 65–67, 70
Greenwich Village apartment of, 158–61, 175–76, 187, 189, 311, 344, 387n
on Guadalcanal, 282
Gurewitsch and, 317–20, 325, 331–32, 336–37, 339, 342–45, 349, 357n
and Hall’s death, 243–45
and Hick’s racism, 111–12
Holocaust and, 272
Howe’s friendship with, 75, 97, 131
HUAC and, 210–11
as Human Rights Commission chairman, 317, 320, 321, 325–26
and illnesses of family vs. friends, 297–98
independence of, 28, 29, 31, 44
Israel visit of, 331
JFK and, 347–48
journalists distrusted by, 17–18
Khrushchev and, 342–44
Lash’s relationship with, 211–12, 221, 237, 252, 257, 278–79, 281–82, 284, 286, 296, 318, 340–41, 345
Latin American tour of, 285–86
LeHand’s relationship with, 21–22
lesbian friends of, 73–74
at London UN conference, 314–15
marriage of, 7, 22, 29, 39, 40–41, 71–72, 125, 146, 150, 260, 295–96
New Deal programs and, 119
New York Society debut of, 70–71
and 1936 election campaign, 149–51
at 1940 Democratic convention, 221, 225–27, 234–35
and 1960 election, 347–48
OCD job of, 245–46, 247, 253
in O’Day’s congressional campaign, 133–34
Pakistan visit of, 331
peace movement and, 190–91, 197–98, 215–18, 282
and Pearl Harbor attack, 247
person-personage dichotomy of, 6, 236–37, 267
physical appearance of, 15
political and social activism of, 13, 75, 134, 172–73, 190–91, 207
poor self-image of, 23, 32
pregnancies of, 71
press and, 31, 106–8, 123–24, 128–29, 145
private reports to FDR from, 89, 174
prospect of third term dreaded by, 218
Puerto Rico trips of, 103, 105–10, 119, 285–86
racial injustice as concern of, 113–14, 270–72
radio broadcasts of, 247
rationing and, 266
refugee crisis and, 314–15
romanticizing of war disliked by, 252–53
