Word: roosevelts
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...Eleanor Roosevelt paid a visit to Radcliffe, the first president's wife ever to do so, and gave two addresses. She told a Phi Beta Kappa that--I quote from the Radcliffe News of December 18, 1942--"she thought this decade the most exciting in all history for the young girl--the young college girl. 'Not since pioneer days have women had such great chances to prove their worth...
...believe most of us agreed with Mrs. Roosevelt. But it is also consistent with the times that so few of us criticized Harvard's closed-to-women graduate schools and libraries, and the lack of women on the Faculty...
There was a fund raiser for the controversial F.D.R Memorial the other day that traveled all over Washington and included real Roosevelt martinis (3 to 1) at the Tidal Basin construction site. It ended with a private White House dinner of lamb and artichokes at $10,000 a plate and grossed about half a million. Bill and Hillary Clinton were eloquent in praise of their heroes Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt to their black-tie audience of 200. Actors Jane Alexander and Edward Herrmann, who had played the Roosevelts on television, gave readings, and there was a scratchy old recording...
...problem was that the crucial and defining fact that Roosevelt conducted his presidency from a wheelchair became a forgotten footnote to the White House proceedings and, indeed, to the whole memorial idea. In the warm glow of the White House it was easy to ignore the growing clamor at the gates about a memorial that is taking $42 million in tax money and has no depiction of Franklin Roosevelt in a wheelchair. (Or, for that matter, of Eleanor's fur stole, now considered too controversial...
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has become the spokeswoman for a loose confederation of scholars who likewise are appalled at the idea of going ahead with the memorial as designed. "Roosevelt's polio made his special relationship with the American people possible," she said last week. "Not to allow that to be shown would be a fundamental distortion of history, a real loss." The Roosevelt heirs, who at first seemed supportive of a historically cleansed memorial, seem to have tipped the other way, with many favoring a change. The National Organization on Disability has agreed to pick up any extra cost...