Eleanor (56 page)

22.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Roy Wilkins, Feb. 15, 1956; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Walter White, Feb. 24, 1956; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Pauli Murray, Feb. 22, 1956.

23.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Roy Wilkins, undated, and Wilkins’s reply, April 2, 1956.

24.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Channing Tobias, April 26, 1956.

25.
Letter from Adlai Stevenson to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 15, 1956, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, June 20, 1956.

26.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Trude W. and Joseph P. Lash, July 22, 1956.

27.
Letter from Joseph Rauh, Jr., to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 24, 1956, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, July 30, 1956.

28.
Letter from Joseph Rauh, Jr., to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 2, 1956; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Aug. 4, 1956.

29.
Letter from Adlai Stevenson to Paul Butler, Aug. 4, 1956; letter from Adlai Stevenson to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 9, 1956.

30.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, Aug. 4, 1956; letter from James Finnegan to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 3, 1956; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Estes Kefauver, Aug. 4, 1956.

31.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Paul Butler, July 2, 1956.

32.
Letter from Adlai Stevenson to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 16, 1956.

33.
E. Roosevelt,
On My Own,
pp. 162, 163; newspaper clippings.

34.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in the
National Roosevelt Day Journal
of the Americans for Democratic Action, 1963; E. Roosevelt,
On My Own,
pp. 162, 163; see also footnote 36, below.

35.
Interviews with Mary Lasker and Lorena Hickok; Eleanor Roosevelt, speech to the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 13, 1956, in Eleanor Roosevelt speech file, in Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.

36.
Thomas Stokes, “Mrs. R’s Fight,”
New York Post,
Aug. 15, 1956; Andrew Tully, in the
New York World-Telegram,
Aug. 16, 1956;
New York Times,
Aug. 14, 1956;
New York Herald Tribune,
Aug. 13, 1956; letter from Eugenie Anderson to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 6, 1956; letter from Abba Schwartz to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 31, 1956; letter from James Landis to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 3, 1956.

37.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to A. David Gurewitsch, Aug. 17, 1956; letter from Helen Hill Miller to Eleanor Roosevelt, undated; David E. Lilienthal,
The Road to Change, 1955–59
, vol. IV of
The Journals of David E. Lilienthal,
5 vols. (New York, 1969), p. 108, Aug. 17, 1956; letter from William Benton to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 27, 1956.

38.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Adlai Stevenson, Aug. 28, 1956.

39.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to David Gray, Sept. 14, 1956; Lash Diaries, Sept. 19, 1956; letter from Adlai Stevenson to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 16, 1956;
letter from Paul Butler to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 19, 1956; letter from Katie S. Louchheim to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 19, 1956; letter from Agnes Meyer to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 22, 1956.

40.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Adlai Stevenson, Sept. 20, 1956.

41.
Memorandum from Bernard Baruch to Adlai Stevenson, Sept. 20, 1956; Lash Diaries, Sept. 19, 1956; letter from Bernard Baruch to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 23, 1956, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Oct. 26, 1956.

42.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to James Finnegan, Oct. 12, 1956.

43.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Adlai Stevenson, Oct. 10, 1956.

44.
Interviews with Anna Rosenberg and A. David Gurewitsch.

45.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Philip Vaughn (“Bennett”), Oct. 24, 1956.

46.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to David Gray, Nov. 24, 1956; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Adlai Stevenson, Nov. 7, 1956.

47.
Carl T. Rowan, “The Life of Eleanor Roosevelt,”
New York Post,
March, 1958; interview with Samuel I. Rosenman.

13. TWO BOSSES—KHRUSHCHEV AND DE SAPIO

1.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Charl Williams, Dec. 8, 1956.

2.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Paul Butler, Dec. 6, 1956.

3.
E. Roosevelt,
On My Own,
cited (Ch. 1), pp. 194–95; letter from Dorothy Schiff to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 11, 1957.

4.
Press conference release, July 1, 1954; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to A. David Gurewitsch, July 1, 1954.

5.
Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Trude W. and Joseph P. Lash, Sept. 6, 17, and 20, 1957.

6.
E. Roosevelt,
On My Own,
p. 200.

7.
Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Trude W. and Joseph P. Lash,
op. cit.

8.
E. Roosevelt,
On My Own,
pp. 206, 207.

9.
Ibid.,
p. 232.

10.
Ibid.,
p. 217.

11.
Transcript of Eleanor Roosevelt’s interview with Nikita S. Khrushchev; E. Roosevelt,
On My Own,
pp. 228–29.

12.
E. Roosevelt,
On My Own,
pp. 230–31; interview with A. David Gurewitsch.

13.
New York Post,
Oct. 21, 1957; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Queen Juliana, Feb. 14, 1958.

14.
Letter from Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., to Eleanor Roosevelt, Nov. 1, 1958; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Nikita S. Khrushchev, Nov. 5, 1958.

15.
New York Post,
Sept. 18, 1959;
New York Times
, Sept. 19, 1959; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Nikita S. Khrushchev, Sept. 21, 1959.

16.
New York Times,
Oct. 15, 1960; interview with A. David Gurewitsch; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Broome, Nov. 5, 1960.

17.
Interview with Elizabeth Drewry.

18.
Interview with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to David Gray, Nov. 18, 1954.

19.
Eleanor Roosevelt, on “Meet the Press,” Oct. 26, 1958; Lash Diaries, Nov. 8, 1958.

20.
New York Post,
Nov. 5, 1958.

21.
Eleanor Roosevelt, “If You Ask Me,” column in
McCall’s
, March, 1961; James M. Burns and Janet Thompson Burns, “Mrs. Roosevelt a Remarkable 75,”
New York Times Magazine,
Oct. 4, 1959.

22.
New York Post,
July 16, 1959; Lash Diaries, Dec. 31, 1961.

14. A NEW GENERATION TAKES OVER

1.
Postcard from Adlai Stevenson to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 25, 1959, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, July 28, 1959.

2.
E. Roosevelt, “If You Ask Me,” cited (Ch. 13), March, 1957.

3.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Chester Bowles, Feb. 14, 1958.

4.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Paul Butler, Jan. 24, 1958.

5.
New York Times,
Dec. 8, 1958; Lash Diaries, Oct. 25, 1958.

6.
Eleanor Roosevelt, interview, “College News Conference,” ABC-TV, Dec. 7, 1958.

7.
Lash Diaries, Nov. 11, 1958.

8.
Ibid.,
Feb. 21, 1960.

9.
The author was one of those whom Mr. Johnson regaled with these stories.

10.
E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 1), Sept. 27, 1952.

11.
Eleanor Roosevelt, “Of Stevenson, Truman and Kennedy,”
Saturday Evening Post,
March 18, 1958; interview with Justin Feldman, law partner of James Landis; E. Roosevelt, interview, “College News Conference,”
op. cit.

12.
Letter from John F. Kennedy to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 11, 1958, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Dec. 18, 1958.

13.
Letter from John F. Kennedy to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 29, 1958, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Jan. 6, 1959.

14.
Letter from John F. Kennedy to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 10, 1959, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s reply, Jan. 20, 1959.

15.
Letter from John F. Kennedy to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 22, 1959.

16.
E. Roosevelt, interview, “College News Conference,”
op. cit.;
letter from Mary Lasker to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 11, 1960, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s comment written on the margin of Mrs. Lasker’s letter.

17.
E. Roosevelt, “If You Ask Me,” Nov., 1959.

18.
E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Oct. 23, 1959.

19.
New York Times, New York Herald Tribune,
and
New York Post,
Dec. 8, 1959.

20.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
(Boston, 1965), p. 20.

21.
E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Feb. 1, 1960, and April 17, 1960.

22.
Interview with A. David Gurewitsch; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Lord Elibank, April 1, 1960.

23.
Lash Diaries, April 12, 1960.

24.
Ibid.,
April 24, 1960; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter Reuther, April 25, 1960.

25.
Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter Reuther and G. Mennen Williams, April 25, 1960.

26.
Lash Diaries, May 31, 1960.

27.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mary Lasker, June 1, 1960.

28.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, June 7, 1960.

29.
Letter from Adlai Stevenson to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 10, 1960.

30.
Eleanor Roosevelt called on Stevenson to clarify his position on June 11, 1960, and Stevenson replied on June 12, 1960; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” June 13, 1960.

31.
New York Times,
June 13, 1960.

32.
Letter from Adlai Stevenson to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 13, 1960.

33.
Arthur Krock, column in the
New York Times,
June 14, 1960; Stevenson comment to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 15, 1960.

34.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, June 15, 1960.

35.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Edmund Brown, June 10, 1960; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Michael DiSalle, June 21, 1960.

36.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Agnes Meyer, June 21, 1960.

37.
Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Trude W. and Joseph P. Lash, June 19, 1960.

38.
Ibid.,
July 15, 1960.

39.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Gus Ranis, July 9, 1960.

40.
N. R. Howard, in the
Cleveland Plain Dealer,
July 13, 1960.

41.
Lash Diaries, July 17, 1960.

42.
Norman Mailer,
The Presidential Papers
(New York, 1963), p. 36; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to LeRoy Collins, July 29, 1960.

43.
Letter from Nannine Joseph to Cass Canfield, July 19, 1960; David E. Lilienthal,
The Harvest Years, 1959–63
, vol. V of
The Journals of David E. Lilienthal,
5 vols. (New York, 1971), p. 103; Lash Diaries, July 17, 1960.

44.
Lash Diaries, July 17, 1960.

45.
Letters from Adlai Stevenson to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 7, 1960.

46.
Interviews with with Mrs. Herbert Lehman, A. David Gurewitsch, and Maureen Corr.

47.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Adlai Stevenson, Aug. 11, 1960.

48.
William Walton, in
As We Remember Him,
ed. John K. Jessup and others (New York, 1965), p. 88.

49.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Stevenson’s friends, Aug. 15, 1960.

50.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy, Aug. 15, 1960; letter from John F. Kennedy to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 26, 1960.

51.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy, Aug. 27, 1960.

52.
Ibid.,
Oct. 24, 1960.

53.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Peter Kamitchis, Oct. 21, 1960.

54.
E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Jan. 2, 1961.

15. TO THE END, COURAGE

1.
Miss Perkins’s attitude was described to me by Prof. Maurice Neufeld of Cornell University, who arranged for Miss Perkins to come to Cornell. David Gurewitsch told me the Morgenthau story.

2.
Gallup Opinion Index, Report No. 19; Eleanor Roosevelt, financial papers, 1961.

3.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mr. Horne, Feb. 19, 1960.

4.
Emma Bugbee, in the
New York Herald Tribune,
Oct. 11, 1961;
New York Post,
Oct. 11, 1961.

5.
New York Times,
Oct. 6, 1959; interview with Maureen Corr.

6.
Emma Bugbee, “My Most Unforgettable Character,”
Reader’s Digest,
Oct., 1963; Thomas L. Stix, “Mrs. Roosevelt Does a TV Commercial,”
Harper’s,
Nov., 1963.

7.
E. Roosevelt,
You Learn by Living,
cited (Ch. 11); interview with Nannine Joseph.

8.
Letter from Anna Roosevelt Halsted to A. David Gurewitsch, April 7, 1960;
New York Post,
Dec. 7, 1961.

9.
Interview with the late Mrs. Gerald Morgan.

10.
Interview with the Reverend Elliott Lindsley.

11.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Vervaet told me this story.

12.
Interview with Maureen Corr.

13.
Ibid.,
Adlai Stevenson, eulogy, delivered Nov. 17, 1962.

14.
Lash Diaries, July 4, 1962.

15.
Recollection of the author; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 1), Aug. 10, 1960.

16.
Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin Roosevelt III, Jan. 15, 1962.

17.
Interview with Anna Roosevelt Halsted.