by Susan Quinn
rootless feelings of, 153, 158
Russia trips of, 342–43, 347
and Sara Roosevelt’s death, 243
Souvestre and, 67–68, 70
Spanish Civil War and, 198–99, 330
speaking tours of, 173, 190, 239, 262, 278
Spellman’s attack on, 330–31
strict upbringing of, 12, 79
and Thompson’s death, 335–36
as Todhunter teacher and cofounder, 29, 30–31, 186
in trip to West Virginia, 93–95
Trude Lash and, 279
Truman and, 303, 313–14, 331
Tuskegee Airmen and, 271
TV appearances of, 329
as unenthusiastic about becoming First Lady, 13, 28
Upper East Side townhouse of, 344, 387n
Val-Kill home (converted factory) of, 183, 188, 205, 221, 224, 231, 297, 311–12
Val-Kill Industries and, 13, 18–19, 95
in visit with British king and queen, 268
as volunteer during World War I, 72
at Warm Springs, 78, 114–15, 306
in wartime Pacific tour, 278, 279–83
in wartime tour of England, 267–70
White House redecorated by, 147, 153–54
Wiltwyck School and, 321
women-only press conferences of, 107–8
World’s Fair and, 193–95
World Youth Congress and, 190–91
WPA and, 137, 151
Yugoslavia and, 296, 340
Roosevelt, Eleanor, love affair of Hick and, 2–3, 43, 119–20, 285–86, 345, 357–58
Christmases during, 102–3, 175–76, 231, 248–49, 251, 272, 283
and competing demands on ER’s time, 131–32, 146–48, 176–77, 286
ER’s emotional reserve and, 3, 83, 130
ER’s person-personage dichotomy and, 236
ER’s visits to Little House in, 181–82
and Hick’s decision to abandon journalism career, 46–48, 61, 81–82
Hick’s New Deal trips and, 101–3
Hick’s reporting job and, 1, 3, 38
last visit of ER and Hick in, 348
lessened intensity of, 150, 175, 189
letters’ importance in, 2, 3–5, 6–7
1933 car trip in, 79, 81–82, 85–89
posthumous revelations of, 5–6
Rock Creek Cemetery visit in, 44–45
sharing of childhood memories in, 23, 39
speculation about physical nature of, 6, 176
and visit with Ella Dickinson, 124–25, 126
Warm Springs visit in, 114–15
West Coast trip in, 120–21, 123–24, 126–29
Yosemite camping trip in, 126–28, 279
Roosevelt, Eleanor, writings of:
on fear, 206–7
Hick and, 110–11, 170, 174, 207
It’s Up to the Women, 111
Ladies of Courage, 334–35, 387n
“My Day” column, 113, 150–51, 155, 156, 159, 160–61, 170–71, 172–73, 174, 181–82, 183, 194–95, 199–200, 208–9, 237–38, 239, 242, 244, 245, 266–67, 268, 269, 270, 282, 288, 307, 313, 318, 321, 330, 331, 333, 342, 347
“Ten Rules for a Successful Marriage,” 22
This I Remember, 304, 326–29
This Is My Story, 111, 170
“Why I Still Believe in the Youth Congress,” 216–17, 218
WPA successes publicized by, 174
You Learn by Living, 345–46
Roosevelt, Eleanor (Hall’s daughter), 193, 194, 245
Roosevelt, Elliott, 43, 242, 297, 306, 329
in Army Air Corps, 238–39
marriages of, 84–85, 126, 237, 312, 336
Roosevelt, Elliott Bulloch, 30, 61, 63
alcoholism of, 12, 64, 65
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano:
Anna’s relationship with, 292, 295, 296
antilynching bill and, 114
appeal to Hitler from, 201
in Atlantic Conference, 240, 241–42
attempted assassination of, 37–38
Bridge’s profile of, 26–27
at Cairo Conference, 283
at Casablanca Conference, 275–76, 277
Churchill’s White House meeting with, 248–49, 251–52
coal miners and, 144
court-packing plan of, 172, 180, 197
in cross-country inspection of munitions factories, 260–61
death of, 301–2, 303–7
declining health of, 292–93, 295, 296, 297
in destroyer deal with Britain, 228
ER’s engagement to, 71
and ER’s independence, 44
ER’s private reports to, 89, 174
and ER’s relationship with Hick, 43
first inaugural address of, 207
“Four Freedoms” speech of, 242
fourth inaugural address of, 298
Good Neighbor policy of, 190
and Hall’s death, 244–45
Hick and, 18–19, 161–62
Hick on, 353
Hick’s admiration of, 149–50
Hick’s field reports read by, 163
Holocaust and, 272, 383n
Hoover’s policies repudiated by, 36
houseboat trips enjoyed by, 74–75
infidelities of, 39–41
and James’s advisory position, 145–46
LeHand and, 21–22, 74, 75, 78, 259
LeHand left half of estate by, 259
likeliness of third term for, 215, 218–19
marriage of, 22, 29, 39, 40–41, 71–72, 125, 146, 150, 260, 295–96
and mother’s death, 243
as Navy assistant secretary, 27, 39–40, 197
as New York governor, 15, 21, 27, 36, 60
in 1932 election, 1, 11–12, 13, 30, 32, 232
1933 inaugural speech of, 45–46
1935 State of the Union speech of, 136
in 1936 election, 149–51, 171, 232
in 1940 election, 228–29
in 1944 election, 288–89, 293–94
North African invasion plan of, 264–66, 267
and Pearl Harbor attack, 246–47
polio of, 11, 12, 14, 27, 29, 74–75, 131, 291, 300, 318
in preinaugural interregnum, 35–36
at Quebec Conference, 277, 279
racial injustice and, 114
radio broadcasts of, 206, 262, 284
resettlement projects and, 96, 97
Rutherfurd’s affair with, 39–41, 72, 84, 259, 293, 296–97, 301, 304, 306, 365n
at Shangri-La camp, 265
Spanish Civil War and, 198–99
Suckley and, 243, 260
Supreme Court castigated by, 151
at Tehran Conference, 277, 283, 285
U.S. unpreparedness for war as concern of, 197
in voyage to Hawaii, 120–21, 128–29
Wallace abandoned by, 289, 295
Wallace chosen for vice president by, 223–24, 225–27
Warm Springs retreat of, 74, 78, 291, 296–97, 301, 306
at Yalta Conference, 299–300, 343
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, Jr., 40, 76, 78, 129, 242, 312
drinking problem of, 237
in Navy, 239
political career of, 336
Roosevelt, Hall, 61, 193
alcoholism of, 12, 85, 186–87
car accident of, 186–87
death of, 243–45
Roosevelt, James, 11, 45, 129, 145, 244–45, 259, 260, 297
and FDR’s reversal of advisory appointment, 145–46
in Marines,
239
marriages of, 238, 336
political career of, 336
Roosevelt, John, 40, 76, 78, 107, 109, 129, 336, 341
in Navy, 239
Roosevelt, Kermit, 162–63
Roosevelt, Nina, 341, 347
Roosevelt, Ruth Googins, 126, 237, 312
Roosevelt, Sara, 30, 36–37, 40–41, 44, 71, 73, 74, 76, 77, 145, 153, 345, 374n
death of, 243
Roosevelt, Theodore, 13, 18, 27, 39, 40, 63–64, 67, 126–27, 154
Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr., 76
Roosevelt family:
Hyde Park mansion of, 18, 30, 76, 154, 155, 243
Manhattan mansion of, 32, 36–37, 73
Roosevelt Home Club, 357
Roosevelt Presidential Library, 5
Roosevelt Special (FDR’s 1932 campaign train), 11–12, 13, 14, 15–17, 19
Rosenman, Sam, 223
Roswell, Ga., 115
Rutherfurd, Lucy Mercer, 39–41, 72, 84, 259, 293, 296–97, 301, 304, 306, 365n
Rutherfurd, Winthrop, 41
Sagamore Hill, 18, 64
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 45
St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, 268
San Francisco, Calif., 128, 129
Schiff, Dorothy, 342
Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 58
Scotts Run valley, 93, 94, 96, 97, 113, 369n
Scripps-Howard newspapers, 342
Seagraves, Eleanor Roosevelt “Sistie,” 184, 341, 350, 354, 355
Seagraves, Van, 354
Sea Lion, Operation, 218
Secret Service, U.S., 85, 86, 94, 123, 160
segregation, 207–8
Shangri-La (FDR’s Catoctin Mountain camp), 265
Sheean, Vincent, 327
Sherwood, Robert, 246
Shirer, William L., 201, 299
Shoumatoff, Elizabeth, 301, 304
Sicily, Allied invasion of, 277
Simons, Austin, 217
Smith, Al, 15, 42, 76
Social Security, 134
Sorbonne, 325
South:
de facto slavery in, 116
federal relief programs in, 116–17
lynchings in, 114
racism in, 112–13, 115–17, 207–8
South Carolina, 116, 293
South Dakota, 2, 50, 93, 148
Southern Conference on Human Welfare, 207
Souvestre, Émile, 67
Souvestre, Marie, 29, 67–69, 74
Soviet Union, 196, 198, 325
atomic weapons acquired by, 343
ER’s trips to, 342–43, 347
German nonaggression pact with, 201, 211
Jews in, 343
refugee crisis and, 314–15
in “winter war” in Finland, 216
in World War II, 264, 277
Spain, 196
Spanish Civil War, 164, 198–99, 244, 268, 330
Spanish Earth, The (film), 198
Spellman, Francis Joseph Cardinal, ER attacked by, 330–31
Stalin, Joseph, 196, 201, 211, 264–65
at Tehran Conference, 277, 285
at Yalta Conference, 299, 343
Stalingrad, Battle of, 277
Starnes, Joe, 210–11
Stein, Gertrude, 160, 369n
Stevenson, Adlai, 332–33, 347–48
Stimson, Henry, 265, 270–71
Student Union, 211
Suckley, Daisy, 243, 260, 264, 295, 296, 301–2
Sullivan, Anne, 341, 342
Supreme Court, U.S.:
FDR’s castigation of, 151
FDR’s proposed expansion of, 172, 180, 197
New Deal legislation overturned by, 151, 172, 256
Sweet, Mr., 140–41
Talmadge, Eugene, 112, 116
Tammany Hall, 27, 60
Tarbell, Ida, 159–60
Taubman, Howard, 330
Teamsters Union, 293–94
Teapot Dome scandal, 76
Tehran Conference, 277, 283, 285
Thompson, Dorothy, 200, 246, 305
Thompson, Malvina “Tommy,” 118, 131–32, 170, 182, 183, 216, 248, 278, 279, 328, 352
death of, 335–36
and ER’s break with Cook and Dickerson, 185, 187–89, 207
on ER’s friendships, 258
and ER’s post–White House career, 312–13
ER’s relationship with, 15, 16, 221
Hick and, 15–16, 258
on Hick’s health problems, 315
Tillett, Gladys, 234, 254, 261, 262, 263, 286, 289–90, 300, 315
Time, 38, 109–10
Tito, Josip Broz, 340
Tivoli, N.Y., 66–67, 245
Todhunter School, 29, 30–31, 77, 186, 188
Toklas, Alice B., 369n
Too Close to the Sun (C. Roosevelt), 157
Toombs, Henry, 77, 78
Top Cottage, 260, 312, 336
Torch, Operation, 264–66, 267, 269, 270, 272, 273
Trouble I’ve Seen, The (Gellhorn), 143, 164
Truman, Bess, 313–14
Truman, Harry, 313–14, 289, 332, 349
ER and, 303, 313–14, 331
as FDR’s 1944 running mate, 289
FDR’s death and, 303–4
in 1948 election, 322–23, 325
Tugwell, Rex, 136, 163
Tully, Grace, 265–66, 301
Tuskegee Airmen, 271
Tuskegee Institute, 114
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (play), 51–52
unemployment, 1, 35, 136, 137, 197
United Nations, 242
ER at London conference on, 314–15
General Assembly of, 325, 326, 331
Human Rights Commission of, 317, 320, 321, 325–26
refugee crisis and, 314–15
right-wing attacks on, 339
United States:
in destroyer deal with Britain, 228
war material production in, 260–61
war preparation in, 239, 261
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 242, 317, 320, 325, 326
Val-Kill cottage, 18, 21, 30, 76–77, 78, 158, 179, 182–83, 186–87, 207, 336
Val-Kill Industries, 13, 18–19, 77–78, 95, 134, 147, 183, 185, 186, 354, 355
Vandenberg, Arthur, 315
Vanderlip, Narcissa Cox, 159
Vaughn, Marjorie Bennett, 69
Vestris, sinking of, 60–61
Vichy France, 246
Vidal, Gore, 341
Vietnam War, 353
Vyshinsky, Andrei, 314
Wagner, Robert, 172
Wagner Act, 144
Walker, Jimmy, 60
Wallace, Henry:
FDR’s 1944 abandoning of, 289, 295
as FDR’s choice for vice president, 223–24, 225–27
Wallace, Mrs., 226–27
Walter Reuther: Labor’s Rugged Individualist (Gould and Hickok), 355
Walton, William, 348
Ward, Elizabeth, 53–54
War Department, U.S., 119
Warm Springs, Ga., 74–75, 78, 102, 136, 183, 291, 296–97, 301, 306
ER and Hick at, 114–15
Washington, George, 195
Webb, Beatrice, 68
Webster, Mabel, 165–66
Webster, Marshall, 165–66
Welles, Sumner, 240
Wellington, New Zealand, 280
Well of Loneliness, The (Hall), 369n
West Virginia, coal miners in, 4, 93–99, 143–44
Whalen, Grover, 169, 195–96, 212–14
White, Walter, 1
14, 119, 208, 209
White House:
Anna Roosevelt as resident of, 292
Christmas celebrations at, 157–58, 248–49, 251, 272–73
ER’s leavetaking of, 307
ER’s redecoration of, 147, 153–54
ER’s suite in, 155
FDR’s bedroom in, 155
Hick’s room in, 155–56, 258
Hick’s stays at, 2, 161–63, 165–66, 236, 239–40, 247–48, 258, 275, 277, 307
LeHand’s bedroom in, 157
Lincoln bedroom in, 155, 259
Mrs. Hoover’s decoration of, 154
Oval Room in, 154–55
wartime changes at, 258
Wiese, Otis, 327
Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, 306
Williams, Aubrey, 136, 208
Willkie, Wendell, 218–19, 222, 228–29
Wilson, Woodrow, 39
Wiltwyck School, 321
Winship, Blanton, 107
Wise, Stephen, 272
women:
in British war effort, 269–70
in 1944 election, 289–90
U.S. entry into war opposed by, 215
in wartime defense industry, 261
Women’s Democratic News, 134
women’s rights, 72–73, 75, 134
Woollcott, Alexander, 82–83
Work, Glenn, 95
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 115, 210, 212
creation of, 136–37
ER’s defense of, 151
mismanagement and delays in, 140–41
successes of, 137, 174
World Court, 159
World’s Fair Women’s Committee, 181
World War I, 29, 71, 72, 75, 95–96, 196, 217, 369n
World War II, 326
Allied victory over Germany in, 306
eastern front in, 264, 277
and FDR’s popularity, 215
isolationists and, see isolationism
Japanese surrender in, 313
Normandy invasion in, 283, 288
outbreak of, 201, 205, 215
in Pacific, see Pacific, World War II in
U.S. entry into, 246
U.S. setbacks in, 259, 262
Western Front in, 298–99
women’s opposition to U.S. entry into, 215
World Youth Congress, 190–91, 210
WPA Guide to New York City, The, 159
Yalta, ER’s meeting with Khrushchev in, 343
Yalta Conference, 299–300, 343
“Years Alone, The” (New Yorker profile of ER), 329
Yosemite valley, 126–28, 279
Yugoslavia, 296, 340
Zangara, Giuseppe, 37
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