Eleanor (58 page)

her personal campaign to overthrow De Sapio, 279–81

misgiving about Hannegan as national committee chairman, 13–14

praises Truman for backing FEPC Bill, 14

refuses NCPAC chairmanship not to alienate, 15

refuses to run for Senate (1946), 10

will not follow party line, 11

see also
individual party officials

Democrats/Democratic party, Eleanor and, 1946 campaign:

country lacks leadership, 133

Republicans sweep elections, 132–33

stops movement to draft her, 132

ticket nominated, 131–32

Democrats/Democratic party, Eleanor and, 1948 campaign:

assessment of Truman’s leadership, 147–48

conservative party shift and, 133–35

“draft Eisenhower” movement, 139–43

Franklin Jr. and, 139–41

her final endorsement, 146–47

her political importance, refusal to run for office, 136

need for a “new party,” 148

policy disagreements with Truman, 137–38

remains aloof from Truman candidacy, 141, 143–47

she disapproves of third party, 134

will not be Truman’s running mate, 144

will not support Clinton Anderson as national chairman, 135–36

Democrats/Democratic party, Eleanor and, 1952 campaign:

Chicago convention, her defense of the UN, 208–9

criticizes party organization for lack of support, 211

disenchantment with Eisenhower, 212

effect of Eisenhower victory on her UN role, 214–18

enthusiasm over Stevenson, not asked to campaign, 211

indirect support of Harriman, 205–6

movement to draft her, 205

praise for Stevenson’s ability, best man to deal with Soviets, 213

Republican landslide, sees Stevenson leading opposition, 213

Stevenson her candidate, 204, 205

Stevenson nominated, she suggests meeting with Baruch, 209–11

Democrats/Democratic party, Eleanor and, 1956 campaign, “Madly for Adlai”:

ADA and civil rights plank, Stevenson statement, 254

advises change in his approach, 245

advises him to run again, urges he “meet the people,” 243

Baruch alienated by Stevenson’s advocacy of end to H-bomb tests, 266

civil rights plank controversy, 248–53, 258, 259–60, 269

concerned over Stevenson’s inability to reach audiences, 267

confrontation with Truman, 257–59

the convention, 256–62

convinced he deserves another chance, 241–42

defends his political ability, 241

difficult campaign schedule, 263–64

effect of campaign on her journalistic income, 270–71

feud with Roy Wilkins, 251–53

her speech, 259–61

her thoughts on, 266–67

her work in the primaries, 243–48

his strengths and weaknesses, her views on, 242

ideas on campaign policy, 265–66

“Meet the Press” interview on Nixon and Eisenhower, 264–65

meets with Negro leaders, 254

Minnesota defeat, 245, 246

personal involvement with him, 246

refuses to back Kennedy as vice-presidential nominee, 261

$75,000 fund-raising dinner, 256

Stevenson’s defeat, 268

Stevenson wins nomination, 262

tempering principle to political reality, new perspective on Franklin, 269

trip to Europe during, her return, 263

Washington, D.C., and California victories, 247

Democrats/Democratic party, Eleanor and, 1960 campaign:

arrival in Los Angeles for convention, 299

attitude toward Johnson, 285

choice of likely 1960 candidates, foreign affairs her main concern, 282–83

the convention, Kennedy nominated, 301

defends liberals against Truman attack at Advisory Committee dinner, 289

disappointed Stevenson not appointed secretary of state, 307

does not commit herself to a candidate, 284

“draft Stevenson” movement, 291–92

fears Humphrey-Kennedy battle in primaries, 291

fears Kennedy winning nomination, 292

hope in Stevenson renewed, 288

Kennedy speaks to at airport, 302

Kennedy support grows, she suggests Stevenson-Kennedy ticket, 294–98

at Kennedy’s inauguration, 307–8

kind words for Johnson, softening toward Kennedy, 290

looks favorably on Humphrey and Douglas, 284

mistrusts Kennedy, 286–88

plans convention strategy, 297–98

press conference on Stevenson and Kennedy, 299–300

progressive party elements should look to Stevenson for leadership, 282

still prefers Stevenson, will not pressure him to run, 290

upset over defeat and Stevenson response to draft movement, 302–3

visit with Kennedy, work for his campaign, 304–6

Denmark, 263

Denniston, Elinore, 311–12, 332, 335

De Sapio, Carmine, 278–81, 302

Dewey, Thomas E., 10, 23, 131, 136, 138, 143, 146, 147, 148

Dewson, Molly, 334

Dick, Jane (Mrs. Edison), 245, 257

Dickerman, Marion, 169–70, 320

Dickinson, Emily, 184

DiSalle, Michael V., 297

Donegan, Horace Bishop, 343
n

Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 143, 146, 175, 265, 285

Douglas, Lewis, 85, 142, 188

Douglas, Melvyn, 143

Douglas, Paul H., 343
n

Douglas, William O., 143, 144, 273, 284

Douglas-Home, Sir Alec, 343n–44
n

Dows, Mrs. Olin, 317

Drewry, Elizabeth, 278

Dubinsky, David, 139, 235

Du Bois, W. E. B., 52

Duclos, Jacques, 14

Duffy, 233, 237

Dukeston, Lord, 48

Dulles, John Foster, 23, 24, 27, 31, 63, 66, 86
n
, 91, 152, 157, 162, 222, 234

and “art of brinkmanship,” 244

change in attitude toward her, 37–38, 39

Eleanor critical of, 36

and U.S. decision not to support Human Rights Covenants, 220, 221

Eastland, James O., 252

Eaton, Charles A., 23, 34

Eccles, Marriner S., 138

Economic Bill of Rights, 17
n

Eden, Anthony, 37

Edwards, India, 205, 207

Eichelberger, Clark, 18, 65, 219, 222, 237, 326

Eidson, Mrs. H., 188

Einstein, Albert, 181

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 30, 136, 208, 219, 220, 222–23, 239, 253, 290

and Eleanor’s resignation from UN, 214–18

Little Rock crisis, 262

McCarthyism and, 234

movement to draft (1948), 139–43

presidential campaign (1952), 204, 205, 208, 210, 212–13

presidential campaign (1956), 244, 266, 267, 268

Eisenhower, Mamie, 216, 309

Elibank, Lord, 244, 291, 330

Eliot, George, 180

Elizabeth II (of England), 31, 309

Elmhirst, Mrs. Leonard, 32
n

Emerson, Faye, 7, 79, 178, 331

Emerson, Scoop, 331

Encampment for Citizenship, 237, 314

Entrup, Marge, 334

Ethical Culture Societies, 237

European Convention on Human Rights, 67

European Recovery Program,
see
Marshall Plan

Evatt, Herbert V., 188
n

Faisal Alsaud, Emir, 26

Fala, 5, 171–72, 237, 328

Faubus, Orval E., 262

Feldman, Justin, 281

FEPC Bill, 13, 14

Ferber, Edna, 246

Ferguson, Hector, 26

Field, Ruth, 297, 305

Finland, 94, 189

Finletter, Thomas K., 243, 247, 257, 266, 267, 280, 297, 302

Fisher, Dorsey, 26

Fitzpatrick, Paul, 131

Fitzwilliams, Hilda, 330

Fleeson, Doris, 143, 155, 221, 239

Flynn, Edward J., 13, 15, 135–36, 138, 140–41, 158, 161

Ford, George B., 319

Foreign Affairs
, 87
n

Formosa, 201

Forrestal, James, 140

Partition of Palestine question, 114, 117–18, 119–20, 121, 123

Fortas, Abe, 24

Franco, Francisco, 151, 152, 158, 162–63
n

Frankfurter, Mrs. Felix, 101

Franklin, Freeda, 6

Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Bridge, 333

Fraser, Peter, 37

Freeman, Orville L., 344
n

French Broadcasting System, 63

Fritchie, Barbara, 12

Fujikawa, Anna Rosenberg, 223

Galbraith, J. Kenneth, 290, 294, 306

Gandhi, Mohandas, 199

Gardner, Richard N., 195

Gellhorn, Martha, 233

George VI (of England), 31

Germany, 70, 72, 94, 104, 106–7, 112, 326–27

Goldberg, Arthur J., 344
n

Golden, John, 17, 24, 165, 182, 224

Goldmann, Nahum, 344
n

Goodhart, Arthur L., 344
n

Gould, Beatrice, 93, 186

Gould, Bruce, 93

Graham, Frank, 193, 319

Gray, David, 162
n
, 186, 223, 234, 243, 264, 268, 279, 320–21, 340

Gray, Maude, 2, 29, 64, 130, 145, 173, 176, 178, 201, 238

Great Britain, 30, 32, 35, 73, 82, 94, 188, 221

see also
Churchill, Winston; Palestine question

Greece, 82, 83–85, 87, 88, 231

Gromyko, Andrei, 73

Guide for the Bedevilled
, 100

Gunther, John, 187

Gurewitsch, A. David, 195, 198–201, 218, 267, 290, 299, 312–13, 317, 330, 344

accompanies her to Russia, 231–32

with Eleanor in Greece and Yugoslavia, 231

friendship with Eleanor, his illness, 179–80

her illness and, 329, 331, 336–39, 340

Gurewitsch, Edna, 180, 290, 337, 338

Gurewitsch, Grania, 256, 263

Gurewitsch, Maria, 337

Haganah, 108

Hall, Edith (Aunt Pussie), 319, 321

Halls, the, 177

Halprin, Rose, 101

Halsted, Anna, 7
n
, 13, 164, 177, 183, 233, 238, 312, 322, 329

Eleanor questions about Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, 4

Eleanor’s illness and, 336, 338, 340

her divorce troubles Eleanor, 178

their radio program, 181–82

Halsted, James A., 238, 322, 329, 331, 336, 339
n

Hammarskjöld, Dag, 66, 123
n
–24
n
, 239, 277, 326, 342

Hammer, Victor, 327

Hannegan, Robert, 13–14, 91, 135

Harper & Brothers, 185, 200, 311

Harper’s
, 323

Harriman, W. Averell, 85, 210, 279–80, 291, 299, 344
n

and 1952 presidential campaign, 205–6, 208

and 1956 presidential campaign, 243, 246, 247, 254, 257–58

Harrison, Earl G., 104

Harrity, Eileen, 183

Harrity, Richard, 183

Harvard Class of 1904, Eleanor attends 1954 reunion of, 239

Hassett, Bill, 156, 157

Hayes, Carlton, 99

Hearst, William Randolph, Jr., 151

Hearst papers, 150, 151

Hecht, Ben, 100

Hellman, Geoffrey T., 9

Helm, Edith, 239

Henderson, Loy W., 114

Hendrick, James P., 40, 41, 48–49, 53–54, 55, 57, 58–59

Henry Street Settlement, 231

Herbert H. Lehman College, 40

Hickok, Lorena (Hick), 184, 238, 269, 316, 317

Hillman, Sidney, 15

Hirohito, Emperor, 228

Hiroshima, 18, 224–25

Hiss, Alger, 24

Hitler, Adolf, 40, 98

Hobart, Alice Nourse, 165

Hoffman, Anna, 319

Hoffman, Paul, 293

Hogan, Frank, 279–80

Holland, 190

Hong Kong, 229

Hooker, Henry S. (Harry), 17, 173, 176, 317

Hoover, Herbert, 136, 207

Hope
(hospital ship), 331

Hopkins, Harry, 16, 19, 69, 73, 133, 246

Howard, N. R., 299–301

Howe, Grace (Mrs. Louis), 316

Howe, Louis, 141, 278, 281

How to Succeed in Business without Really Tryi
ng, 317

Hoyle, Marguerite, 186

Hudson Shore Labor School, 314

Hull, Cordell, 24, 225

Humphrey, Hubert H., 146, 250, 261, 284, 285, 291, 344
n

Humphrey, John, 48–49, 50, 52, 53

Hunter College, 40, 41

Hyde Park, Eleanor returns to, 3, 4–5, 6–8

as possible UN headquarters site, 19, 29

Ibáñez, Carlos, 203

Ibn Saud, 103, 104, 130

Ichikawa, Fusae, 223

Ickes, Harold, 10

Ickes, Jane, 10

Ihdler, John, 167

India, 30, 192–93, 196–202, 228, 230

Indonesia, 191, 201

International Red Cross, 341

international refugee organization, 45

Intourist, 272

Iran, 70, 321

Israel, 130, 196, 321, 330

see also
Jerusalem; Palestine question

Istanbul, 230

Ives, Mrs., 213

Jackson, Andrew, 170

Jah, Chandra S., 323

Jahn, Gunnar, 342, 343

Janeway, Elizabeth, 97, 186, 187

Japan, 222–29

Jardine & Co., 230

Javits, Jacob K., 279

Jenner, William E., 212, 235, 253

Jerusalem, 113

see also
Israel; Palestine question

Jessup, Philip C., 125

Jewish Agency, 116

Jewish homeland question,
see
Palestine question

“Joe Hill,” 321

John Birch Society, 151

John XXIII, Pope, 67

Johnson, Herschel V., 115

Johnson, Lady Bird, 171, 284

Johnson, Lyndon, 1, 283, 288–90

and 1960 presidential campaign, 297, 298, 301

Johnston, Colin Keith, 183

Joseph, Nannine, 302, 311, 334

Journey’s End
, 183

Juliana (of the Netherlands), 190, 276

Junior League, 314

Just So Stories
, 314

Kardelj, Vice President, 231

Kefauver, Estes, 204, 205

and 1956 presidential campaign, 245, 246–48, 256, 261, 263

Keller, Helen, 65, 66

Kennan, George F., 86–87

Kennedy, Caroline, 328

Kennedy, Jacqueline, 328–29

Kennedy, John F., 162, 176

appoints Eleanor as member of U.S. delegation to UN (1961), 323