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Wives have also demonstrated the unique usefulness of family by serving as excellent emissaries and advisers-Eleanor Roosevelt, Lady Bird Johnson and Rosalynn Carter come to mind...
...would dispute that statement. As a young radical hauled before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1939, Lash became a special confidante of Eleanor Roosevelt. That friendship lasted until Eleanor's final days. Lash remembers running back to his room at the White House or Hyde Park after dinner to scribble down what he remembered from conversations with the first family...
...With Eleanor's death in 1962, Lash quickly set down his personal memories. And when FDR Jr. went in search of an official biographer for his mother, he followed her unspoken advise and chose Lash for the job. The writer jumped at the chance. Almost 10 years later, Lash's winters in Hyde Park and the long hours with Eleanor's private papers culminated in the publication of Eleanor and Franklin. Critics hailed the work as an insightful biography of the first lady and, equally important, a ground-breaking study in the biography of relationships. Lash had maintained his objectivity...
MARRIED. Norris Cotton, 80, Republican Senator from New Hampshire from 1954 to 1974; and Eleanor Brown, 77, his nurse-housekeeper for the past two years; both for the second time (each was widowed); in Charlestown...
...Eleanor R. Appel, placement director at the Law School, said yesterday the number of graduates entering private practice will continue to increase because more law firms are recruiting at the school...