Word: mercer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
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...
...Mercer Island, Wash...
...more, but her bland ignorance of how to ward off pregnancy left her no choice except abstinence." So, he 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...
...satisfied. Addressing Director Losey, Jane declared solemnly: "We have serious objections to the script." These came mainly in the form of voluminous notes, written largely by Nancy. They demanded no fewer than 70 pages of changes in the 104-page script. As a result, Losey nearly lost Screenwriter David Mercer, who, according to one member of the company, was "utterly humiliated" by the ordeal...