Eleanor (59 page)

Eleanor’s work for, her advice, 324–27

his inauguration, 307–8

nominates Eleanor for Nobel Peace Prize, 67n, 341

vice-presidential aspirations (1956), 261

Kennedy, John F., presidential campaign (1960):

calls Eleanor at airport, 302

the convention, wins nomination, 301

Eleanor discusses him at press conference, 299–300

Eleanor mistrusts, 286–88

her fear of his winning the nomination, 293

his support grows, she suggests Stevenson-Kennedy ticket, 293–98

Johnson people try to stop, 298

meets with Stevenson, 303

primaries, 291

she softens toward, 290

visits with Eleanor, she joins his campaign, 304–6

Kennedy, Joseph P., 285–86, 292

Kennedy, Robert, 327

Keswick, M., 230

Khan, Sir Mohammed Zafrullah, 65

Khrushchev, Nikita, 272, 275–78, 283, 320, 326, 328

Kidd, Gordon, 336

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 328, 342

Kintner, Robert E., 181

Kipling, Rudyard, 314

Kissinger, Henry A., 344

Koo, V. K. Wellington, 33

Koons, Mr., 165

Korean War, 191–92, 211

Kotschnig, Walter M., 55, 58

Koussevitzky, Sergei, 183

Kresse, Al, 330

Krock, Arthur, 296

Kubie, Lawrence S., 178–79

Kurusu, Saburo, 225

Kuznetzov, V. V., 28

Ladies’ Home Journal,
10, 151, 164, 184

Ladies of Courage
, 269

La Guardia, Fiorello H., 80, 132, 134

Lake Success, 30, 45

Landis, James M., 261, 285

Langhelle, Nils, 342

Lape, Esther, 4, 16–17, 173, 233, 266, 316, 334, 342, 344

Lash, Joseph, 236, 334, 338

Lash, Trude, 179, 236, 319, 333, 337

Lasker, Mary, 257, 259, 282, 284, 288, 293, 295, 297, 305

Latin America, 193

Laugier, Henri, 41, 52

Lavrova, Anna, 272, 274–75

League of Nations, 25, 32, 40

Leahy, William D., 85, 117

Lebanon, 130, 193, 195–96

Lehman, Herbert H., 120, 132, 152, 156–57, 161–62, 174, 202, 250, 279, 281, 297, 302, 303, 315

Lehman, Mrs. Herbert H., 162, 303

Leigh, W. Colston, 164, 237, 257, 312

Lencer, Martin, 165

Lenin, Vladimir, 97, 274

Lerner, Max, 81

Levy, Adele (Mrs. David M.), 17, 105

Levy, William Turner, 318

Lie, Trygve, 28, 35, 41

Life
, 87
n

Lilienthal, David E., 262, 302, 319, 323

Livingston, Mrs. John Henry, 318

Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 220, 285

Loeb, James, Jr., 79–80

Look
, 271

Lord, Mrs. Oswald, 221

Lorenz, Pare, 165

Louchheim, Katie S., 265

Lovett, Robert A., 53–54, 55, 58–59, 114, 121, 123, 125, 148, 202

Lowdermilk, Walter C., 101–2

Lowenstein, Allard, 166, 243, 247, 318

Luce, Clare Boothe, 143, 309

Lucy Stone League, 324

Ludlow, Elizabeth Livingston, 287

Lynch, Walter A., 174

Lyons, Eugene, 236

MacArthur, Douglas, 136, 192, 207

Macatee, Robert, 230

McCall’s,
164, 185–86, 311

McCarranism, 51

McCarthy, Eugene, 297, 301, 344
n

McCarthy, Joseph, 51, 211, 212, 216, 223, 233–37, 242, 261, 285, 293

McCarthyism,
see
McCarthy, Joseph

McGrath, J. Howard, 136

McInerny, Gen. T., 162
n

McKinney, Frank E., 207, 211

MacLeish, Archibald, 156, 184

McNeill, Hector, 128–29

Magidoff, Nila, 319

Mailer, Norman, 301

Malik, Charles H., 46–47, 48–49, 64, 65, 195, 344

Mansfield, Mike, 344
n

Margaret, Princess, 31

Marshall, George C., 59, 61, 63, 105, 136, 167, 188, 212, 216

attitude toward Eleanor, 90–92

Bernadotte Plan and, 128

corresponds with her on Third World War possibilities, 94–95

“draft Eisenhower” movement and (1948), 140, 141

European reconstruction question, Marshall Plan, 86–96
passim
, 118–19

Jewish refugee question and, 111

partition of Palestine question and, 113–14, 118–19, 122

recognition of Palestine state and, 124–25, 127

Marshall, Mrs. George C., 63, 96

Marshall Plan, 86–96
passim
, 119

Martin, Mrs. Hershey (Tiny), 302, 316

Marvin, George, 238

Masaryk, Jan, 93

Matsumoto, Shigehabu, 344
n

Mature Mind, The
, 227

Maxwell, Elsa, 182

Mead, James M., 10, 131–32

“Meet the Press,” 183, 264–65, 280

Mehta, Mrs. Hansa, 55

Meir, Golda, 127

Meitner, Lise, 19

Memoirs
(Truman), 124

Mercer, Lucy,
see
Rutherfurd, Lucy Mercer

Meyer, Agnes E., 158–60, 209, 265, 298, 305

Miller, Earl, 165, 170–71, 316–17

Miller, Helen Hill, 262

Mindszenty, Joseph Cardinal, 150, 153

Minor, Harold B., 195

“Missouri Gang,” 134

Mohammed V, Sultan, 345–47

Molotov, V. M., 77, 88

Monnet, Jean, 343

Monroney, A. S. Mike, 297, 298

Mora, José A., 48

Morgan, Gerald, 29

Morgan, Mrs. Gerald, 317

Morgenthau, Elinor, 238, 311, 319

Morgenthau, Henry, III, 183, 311, 319, 330, 334

Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 9, 44, 105, 127, 173, 309, 319

Morgenthau, Robert, 305, 319, 334

Morito, Tatsuo, 225

Morley, Louise, 31

Morocco, 345–47

Morse, Wayne, 282

Moscow, Warren, 158
n

Moscow Communiqué of the Foreign Ministers, 27

Murphy, Robert, 73, 190–91, 213

Murray, Pauli, 251

Murray, Sir Arthur, 26

Murray, Thomas E., 279

Murrow, Edward R., 31, 259, 340

Murrow, Janet, 31

Muskie, Edmund, 282

“My Day,” 1, 10

Nabokov, Vladimir, 276

Nagako, Empress, 228

Nagasaki, 18, 326
n

Nash, Walter, 1

Nation
, the, 152, 157

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 17, 164, 247, 248–53

petitions UN for redress of grievances against American society, 52–53, 54

see also
Civil rights

National Broadcasting Company (NBC), 181

National Citizens Political Action Committee, 15

Nation
Associates,
The
, 115

Negeb, 127, 128

Nehru, Jawaharlal, 193, 197–200

Newbold, Mary, 317

New Jersey Board of Control of Social Institutions, 318

New York Citizens Committee for Kennedy, 305

New York City Planning Commission, 315

New York Committee for Democratic Voters, 280

New York Herald Tribune
, 186

New York Journal-American
, 236

New York Post,
271, 289, 297

New York Times,
138, 186, 217

New York World-Telegram,
150, 271

New Zealand, 30

Niebuhr, Reinhold, 79, 344
n

Nielsen, Sivert A., 342

Niles, David, 115

Nixon, Richard M., 175, 211, 244, 253, 264–65, 285, 290, 292, 293, 295, 306

Nizam of Hyderabad, 199

Nobel Peace Prize, 67
n
, 341–44

Noel-Baker, Philip J., 344
n

Nomura, Kichisaburo, 225

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 213, 327

Norton, Mary, 9

Norway, 35, 94, 188

Nottingham Roosevelt scholars, 261

O’Dwyer, William, 132, 136, 157

Oil for the Lamps of China
, 165

On My Own
, 229

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 344
n

Osthagen, Henry, 3

Overstreet, H. A., 227

Pacem in Terris
, 67

Pakistan, 195, 196–97, 202, 228

Palestine question, Eleanor and:

Committee of Inquiry report, British backtrack, 107

feels U.S. should relax immigration laws, 107

her attitude toward Arabs criticized, 130

Ibn Saud, Franklin and, 103–4

issuance of visas, State Department and, 98–99

Jewish terrorist activities, British retaliate, 108–9

100,000 visas
v
. Committee of Inquiry, 103–4, 106

opposes partition, 109–10

pros and cons of Palestine as homeland site, 99–102

sympathy for Jewish refugees, 98

visit to Germany, effect on her views, 106–7

Palestine question, United Nations and:

Bernadotte Plan, 128–29

British decision to turn problem over to, 110

British undermine UN authority,
she attacks self-righteous governments, 110–11

complains to Marshall over U.S. position, 111

cruelty of British policy, 112–13

General Assembly and, 115

her offer to resign, 121–23

Israel voted member, 129–30

oil question, 111, 112, 114, 117, 118

partition approved, her support, 116

Special Committee set up, her impatience, 111

Truman’s recognition of Israel, her objections to secrecy involved, 125–27

UNSCOP’s majority recommendations, she urges U.S. support, 113–14

U.S. reversal, embargo on arms, opposition to peace-keeping force, 117–20

U.S. trusteeship proposal, 121–25

Palmer, Charles F., 171

Pandit, Mme., 197, 198–99, 230

Paris Economic Conference, 88

Parish, Susan (Cousin Susie), 238, 331

Parsons, Mrs. Barclay, 166

Pasternak, Boris, 276

Pasvolsky, Leo, 24, 28

Pate, Maurice, 315

Pauley, Edwin W., 114, 135, 175

Pauling, Linus, 341

Pavlov, A. P., 60–62, 64

Pavlov, Ivan P., 274

Peabody, Endicott, 323

Peace Corps, Advisory Council of, 324

Pearl Harbor inquiry, 22

Pearson, Drew, 79, 146

Pearson, Lester B., 35, 341

Pegler, Mrs. Westbrook, 150–51

Pegler, Westbrook, 25, 136, 150–51, 168, 186, 230, 235, 236

Pehle, John W., 99

Pendergast, Thomas J., 13

Perkins, Frances, 13, 44, 146–47, 309

Perón, Juan, 203

Peter and the Wolf
, 183

Peters, Louise, 168

Pethick-Lawrence, Lady, 26, 33–34

Phillips, William, 156

Pilgrim Society, 31

Pius XII, Pope, 158n, 160

Polier, Justine, 100, 319, 345

Polk, Lily, 208

Pollitzer, Alice (Nanny), 237

Poll tax bills, 13

Popular Front, 81

Powell, Adam Clayton, 249, 251, 252

Pratt, Annie, 337

Pratt, Christopher, 337

Preparatory Commission, 33

Profiles in Courage
, 285

Progressive Citizens of America, 79, 80, 82

Progressive party, 145

Prokofieff, Serge, 183

Purcell, Charles, 318

Queen Elizabeth
, 22, 23

Raleigh News and Observer,
156, 164

Ranis, Gus, 299

Rankins, John E., 104

Rankovic, Aleksandar, 233

Rau, Sir Benegal, 187

Rauh, Joseph L., Jr., 254, 294, 295

Raymond, Jack, 233

Reading, Lady Eva, 26

Reading, Lady Stella, 25, 108–9, 233, 336

Red China, 201, 271, 284

see also
Cold War

Red Decade, The
, 236

Reddy, John, 175

Reid, Mrs. Ogden, 342

“Report on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews,” 99

Reston, James, 25, 27, 118

Reuther, May, 335

Reuther, Walter, 139, 235, 249, 283, 291, 301, 335–36, 344
n

Rhodes, June, 317

Robeson, Paul, 182

Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 184

Robinson, Helen (Mrs. Theodore Douglas), 317

Rockefeller, Nelson A., 292, 293, 331, 334, 344
n

Roosevelt, Amy, 173

Roosevelt, Anna,
see
Halsted, Anna

Roosevelt, Anne, 334

Roosevelt, Belle (Mrs. Kermit), 2, 3, 178, 317–18

Roosevelt, Chandler, 188

Roosevelt, Curtis (Buzzy), 321, 336, 338

Roosevelt, Diana, 173

Roosevelt, Dorothy K., 173

Roosevelt, Eleanor:

AAUN’s party for her, 239

anti-Catholic bias, 287

attitude toward holding public office, 132

backs international control of atomic weapons, 18–19

concern for world peace, 18

denies having political power, 278

enjoys a good scrap, 151

European trip (1956), 263

first formal press conference since leaving White House, 22

George C. Marshall and, 90–92, 96

on her 1956 civil rights stand, 262

her seventieth birthday, 237–38

jobs unrelated to UN assignment, 30–32

on Little Rock crisis, 262

in London for UN Assembly visitors and welcome letters, 26–27

long-hoped-for trip to Soviet Union, 15–16

looking for job to do, 15–18

newspaper column suffers due to Stevenson campaign, 270–71

partial deafness, 48
n

slides on floor of Palais des Nations, 57

State Department refuses to allow Red China trip, 271

Tommy’s death, 238

trip to Kansas reminder of advancing age, 283–84

visit to Israel and Arab countries (1952), 130

Westbrook Pegler’s attacks on, 150–51

see also
Cold War; Democrats/Democratic party; Palestine question; United Nations

Roosevelt, Eleanor, ambassador:

extraordinary: reports on her journey, 202–3

trip to Chile, 203

trip to Near East, India, and Pakistan, 193, 195–203

visit to Scandinavian and Benelux countries, 188–91