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...foreword, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. condemns this report. The notion that his parents "might have engaged in marital recriminations in front of staff and aides is totally inconsistent with their semi-Victorian upbringing and their personal reticences." The letters exchanged between Eleanor and Lash, he says, accurately reflect the innocent nature of their unusual friendship. Here, the reader is the jury. The old Roosevelt haters who recall her muzzy newspaper columns and his years of autocratic rule will believe the worst. But those who see in E.R. a complex, endlessly charitable woman can only answer with more charity...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt [Feb. 1] was a part of my childhood. My father worked for the WPA, and my brother at a CCC camp. His name was spoken with esteem in our household. That rich voice on the radio gave assurance and hope to my parents. I love F.D.R...
...have finally decided on my alltime hero: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Whatever his failures, they were all overshadowed by his monumental deeds...
...interesting to note that while a significant number of your editors in the January 27 issue dissent on the pressing social issue of "free choice" in housing, none has the energy to dissent your editorial on Ronald Reagan, cleverly disguised as a tribute to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Of course, Reagan never attended Harvard (or edited The Crimson), so how can we deify...
...mother, the formidable Sara Delano Roosevelt, who had inculcated in him her own love of collecting and given him his first stamps. She was 26 when she married a widower twice her age, James Roosevelt, 52, a member of the landed gentry of the Hudson Valley and ex-President Theodore Roosevelt's fourth cousin once removed. Franklin was her only child, and she kept him in dresses and long curls until he was five. He was 14 before he first went to school, to Groton and then Harvard. He maintained what was known as "a gentleman...