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...Untold Story has attracted pre-publication attention because advance excerpts identified F.D.R.'s second girl friend as Missy LeHand, who eventually succeeded Lucy Mercer in that delicate position around 1922. As Elliott tells it, all five children knew about his father's relationship with Missy. They eventually took it for granted, over many years, as did members of the official White House family. Eleanor herself acquiesced to an amazing degree. She treated the younger woman as a daughter- to the point of buying her clothes when Missy was "too busy" with political chores...
...mildly stirred to see him with Missy on his lap as he sat in the main stateroom [of Franklin D. Roosevelt's houseboat, the Larooco], holding her in his sun-browned arms." So goes Elliott Roosevelt's account of his father's affair with Marguerite ("Missy") LeHand, his secretary for 20 years. In his already controversial forthcoming book An Untold Story: The Roosevelts of Hyde Park, Elliott says that everyone within the family, including Eleanor, accepted Missy's intimacy with the President. Another skeleton Elliott rattles with apparent enthusiasm is that of Joseph Kennedy, whom...
...contends, his mother had no sex with F.D.R. after 1916. Lash's book had recounted F.D.R.'s long-running affair with Eleanor's special secretary Lucy Page Mercer. Elliott Roosevelt now claims that his father had a hitherto unknown affair with another secretary, Marguerite ("Missy") LeHand, during his marriage. Elliott's siblings-James, Franklin Jr., John and Anna Roosevelt Halsted-have signed a joint statement dissociating themselves from the book...
...Lash, the intimate side of their marriage was over. As time passed, private relations in general deteriorated even further. Polio was for Franklin the permanent blow that Lucy Mercer was for Eleanor. He spent increasing amounts of time seeking cures in the South, especially Warm Springs, where Missy LeHand was his selfless secretary and hostess...
Died. Marguerite Alice ("Missy") LeHand. 47, superconfidential secretary of President Roosevelt until her retirement in 1942; of cerebral hemorrhage; during a vacation in Chelsea, Mass. Born in Potsdam, N.Y., daughter of a real-estate man, she went to Washington as a Bureau of Ordnance stenographer, first worked for Franklin Roosevelt when he ran for Vice President in 1920. Gracious, efficient "Missy" stayed on, checking his accounts, presiding at the tea table when Mrs. Roosevelt was absent, deciding which appointment seekers and telephone callers should reach him, answering much of his personal correspondence, sitting with him evenings to take down...