Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a bleak winter following her husband's defeat, Eleanor McGovern is writing a book based largely on her "introspections" in the bulging black notebooks that she kept during the long campaign. She is also hitting the lecture circuit with commencement speeches at colleges and high schools. Eleanor addresses herself to the Watergate scandal as a caution to graduates. "If I could give one gift to each of you," she says, "it would be the ability to draw a simple line-that line you will not cross...
...time in order to get her mind off it." The extraordinary article was no sooner out than McGovern issued a statement repudiating it. "I have seldom encountered a more disreputable and shoddy piece of journalism. I am particularly offended by the fact that the article defames my wife Eleanor, and friends and colleagues in the Senate, most especially Senator Eagleton...
...Missy affair occupies only a small part of the book, however, and is really beside Elliott's point. He under took this reminiscence ostensibly be cause historians have so idealized Franklin and Eleanor. The cosmetic job has been such, Elliott says, that to the Roosevelt children the two emerge "as total strangers, not the father we loved and the mother we respected." Note the distinction: it is what passes for subtlety in Elliott Roosevelt's account...
...Eleanor had done her duty for the preservation of the line, had exiled Lucy Mercer and had even offered Franklin a divorce. Lonely, frustrated, hurt, in the 1920s she began undertaking assorted good works and political activity (the latter for F.D.R.'s benefit...
...herself with the bigoted Sara, she feigned anti-Semitic notions. Much later, as a columnist, she had the nerve to "picture herself as a calm, contented woman," rather than as the "detached, harried, faultfinding wife and parent we knew." To Daughter Anna she was insensitive. Not only that, but Eleanor was poor company on a camping trip...