B oth Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband Franklin (POTUS #32, if anyone's counting), grew up very wealthy, so you'd think they'd have developed a taste for living high on the hog.

In one letter quoted in the book, dated March 5, 1933, the day after her husband’s first inauguration, Roosevelt writes: “Hick my dearest, I cannot go to bed to-night without a word to you.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) was a diplomat, activist, and the longest serving First Lady of the United States during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms as president from ...

Mollie D. Somerville, who got her start as a writer and researcher working for Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House, died July 7 of congestive heart failure at Arleigh Burke Pavilion in McLean ...

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