Eleanor (60 page)

Roosevelt, Eleanor, An American Phenomenon:

almost resigns from UN, 175

children’s quarrels and personal problems a source of anxiety, 177–79

on Fala, 171–72

finishes
This I Remember
, problems with Bruce Gould, 184–85

friendship with David Gurewitsch, 179–80

helping her sons may cause criticism, 169

and her sons’ political ambitions, 173–76

Lucy Mercer affair revived, 186, 187

named correspondent by Earl Miller’s wife, 170

narrates
Peter and the Wolf
, 183

NBC and WNBC talk shows, 181–83

partnership with Elliott at Val-Kill, 168–69

radio program with Anna, 181–82

relationship with Elliott, 171, 178

taste in poetry, 184

Tommy exhausted, her successor, 171

transfer to
McCall’s
, publication and reception of book, 185–86

Val-Kill center for Roosevelt clan, 172–73

Val-Kill in gatherings of family and friends, 176

Val-Kill sanctuary from public life, 171

work schedule, requests, correspondence (1948), 164–68

Roosevelt, Eleanor, feud with Cardinal Spellman over federal aid to parochial schools, 151–63

her concern for Lehman, 161–62

offers to give up UN post over, 157–58

opposition to J. F. Kennedy and, 162

a reconciliation affected, 158–61

Roosevelt, Eleanor, Franklin’s death and, 1–5

children quarrel over political legacy, 8–9

return to Hyde Park, 3–5

return to public activity, 9–11

settling Franklin’s estate, 6–7

V-E Day radio speech, 5–6

Roosevelt, Eleanor, Khrushchev’s visits to Hyde Park, 276–78

criticism of, 277

Roosevelt, Eleanor, round-the-world trip:

in England, 233

in Greece, lunches with king and queen, 231

greeted in New York by Johnny and Anne, reporters ask about McCarthy, 233–34

Hong Kong, 229–30

India and Istanbul stopovers, 230

Japan, 222–29

in Yugoslavia, meets with Tito, 231–34

Roosevelt, Eleanor, summer, 1956:

automobile accident, 44

personal and literary concerns, 43–44

Roosevelt, Eleanor, To the End, Courage:

active despite illness, 334–36

active social life entertaining friends, 317–18

advertises in column to pay taxi fare, 315

celebrating special occasions, 316

children turn to in times of crisis, 323

disease diagnosed as bone-marrow tuberculosis, her decline and death, 339–40

first collapse, she’s hospitalized, 331–33

full of childhood stories, 321

grandchildren special pleasure, 321–22

her work for and advice to Kennedy, 324–27

insists on going to Campobello, her stay there and return to Val-Kill, 333–34

journalistic and literary work, 311–12

knocked down by car, Anna urges she slow down, 312

lack of pretense, no cause too small, 315

lecturer at Brandeis, refuses special treatment, 310

rehospitalized, wishes to die, 337–38

relationship with Jacqueline Kennedy, 328–29

returns home, confused by news of Cuban missile crisis, 338

sense of history and Roosevelt role in it, 320

senses death near, prepares for, 329–31

at seventy-five, famous, successful, active, 309–10

slowing down, aplastic anemia diagnosed, 329

still active (spring, 1962), 331

straitlaced about social behavior, 322–23

television work, margarine commercial, 311

in touch with Robert Kennedy on civil rights, 327

trip to Europe (1962), 329–30

Uncle David’s sallies before Soviet guests, 320–21

use of atom bomb on Japan not a mistake (1959), 326n–27
n

Val-Kill picnics, youth special concern, 314

Val-Kill still home, prefers letters to phone, 313

vision and compassion, the victim’s ally, 312

Roosevelt, Eleanor, trip to Soviet Russia, meeting with Khrushchev, 271–76

return to U.S., thoughts on Khrushchev, 276

Roosevelt, Elliott, 3, 7, 13, 71, 132, 167, 176, 178, 185, 188, 208, 229, 257, 288, 311, 333, 336

attacked for views in
As He Saw It
, Eleanor’s defense of, 78–79

commissions portrait of Eleanor, 171

Eleanor’s advice to stay out of politics, 174

partnership with Eleanor at Val-Kill, 168–69

personality, Eleanor’s special affection for, 170, 178

as producer of Eleanor’s television and radio shows, 181–83

Roosevelt, Faye Emerson,
see
Emerson, Faye

Roosevelt, Franklin, III (grandson), 321, 322, 335

Roosevelt, Franklin, Jr., 8, 20, 79, 132, 167, 170, 174, 175, 176, 202, 204, 205, 208, 288, 291, 299, 300, 302, 305, 315, 319, 324

De Sapio occasions his 1954 defeat, Eleanor’s retaliation, 279–81

“draft Eisenhower” movement and (1948), 139–41

elected to Congress (1949), 173

re-elected, 176

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 12, 13–14, 15, 16, 18, 24, 26, 28, 29, 30, 52, 74, 75, 82, 103–4, 114, 133, 134, 143, 150, 167, 168, 169, 175, 177, 178, 188, 208–9, 210, 213, 214, 225, 239, 243, 246, 249, 258, 259, 260, 261, 272, 275, 319, 327, 345, 347

death of, settling his estate, 1–9

and Eleanor’s interest in UN, 19

and Jewish refugee question, 99, 101–2, 103

meeting with Joseph Kennedy, 293

postwar Allied unity and, 78

Roosevelt, Hall, 173, 333

Roosevelt, Haven, 321

Roosevelt, James, 3, 5, 7, 14, 79, 132, 167, 169, 205, 208, 284, 288, 300, 324, 332, 339
n

criticizes Truman Doctrine, 135

dressed down by Truman during 1948 campaign, 144

prepares to run for California governorship, 173

seeks Truman’s support, 174

Truman doesn’t endorse, he’s defeated, 175

wins primary, 174

Roosevelt, Janet, 173

Roosevelt, Joan, 337

Roosevelt, John, 173, 208, 230, 233–34, 304, 314, 315, 319, 320, 321, 334

Roosevelt, Minnewa, 223, 227, 229

Roosevelt, Nina, 321–22, 329

Roosevelt, Sally, 304

Roosevelt, Sara Delano, 227

Roosevelt, Theodore, 18, 151, 310

Roosevelt, Theodore, Sr. (grandfather), 321

Roosevelt, Tony, 188

Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History
, 184

Roosevelt Home Club, 320

Roosevelt I Knew,
The, 44

Roosevelt in Retrospect
, 187

Roosevelt Story, The
, 169

Roper, Elmo, 187

Rosenberg, Anna, 167, 202, 257, 282, 293, 297, 305

Rosenman, Dorothy (Mrs. Samuel), 246

Rosenman, Samuel, 241, 269

Rosenmans, the, 291

Rosenthal, A. M., 220

Rosenwald, Lessing J., 105, 115

Ross, Irwin, 163

Rowan, Carl, 150, 268

Rusk, Dean, 59, 122, 189

Russell & Company, 230

Rutherfurd, Lucy Mercer, 4, 6, 208

Rutledge, Wiley, 1

Sachar, Abram, 310, 344
n

St. Laurent, Louis S., 166

St. Lawrence Seaway project, 166

Salter, Baron, 344
n

Sampson, Edith, 175, 193

Sandburg, Carl, 184

Sandifer, Durward, 27–28, 37, 38, 40, 58, 64, 113, 217, 220, 222, 234

Sandifer, Irene, 28, 58, 222, 227

San Francisco Conference, 9, 14, 33

Saudi Arabia, 114
n

Scarlett, Leah, 166, 333–34

Scarlett, William Bishop, 166, 333

Schaeffer-Bernstein, Carola von, 106

Schiff, Dorothy, 271, 331

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 187, 242, 258–59, 276, 294, 295

Schneiderman, Rose, 156

Schuller, Mrs. Craig McGeachy, 166

Schwartz, Abba, 261, 288, 324

Scripps-Howard, 270, 271

Seagrave, Sisty, 233

Seagrave, Van, 233

Searching Wind, The
, 104

SHAPE, 213

Sheean, Vincent, 186

Sheil, Bernard Bishop, 155

Shertok, Moshe, 116

Sherwood, Robert E., 184

Shumatov, Elizabeth, 6

Sinatra, Frank, 311

Smith, Alfred E., 253, 285, 287

Smith, C. R., 319

Smith, Margaret Chase, 344
n

Smith, Walter Bedell, 202

Snyder, John W., 138, 147

South Africa, 30

Soviet Union, 14–16, 22, 30, 32, 35–36, 51, 53, 54–55, 221, 231–32, 263

atomic test (1949), 97

Eleanor on at war’s end, 11–12

Eleanor’s trip to, meeting with Khrushchev, 271–76

Partition of Palestine and, 116, 117, 119–20, 124–25, 126–27

and U.S. 1948 elections, 139, 140

see also
Cold War; United Nations

Spaak, Paul Henri, 29

Spain, 38, 150, 151, 152, 158, 162–63
n

Spellman, Francis Joseph Cardinal, 151, 175, 241, 287

aid to parochial schools controversy, 151–63

Spivak, Lawrence, 183

Stalin, Joseph, 12, 16, 73, 78, 93, 213, 272, 274

Steinberg, Milton, 102

Stettinius, Edward R., Jr., 14, 23, 24, 27, 28

Stevenson, Adlai, 26, 38, 67, 91, 123, 146, 149, 279, 282, 315, 319, 337, 340, 341, 342

accompanies Eleanor to Los Angeles press conference, 299

affectionate letter to Eleanor reports meeting with Kennedy, 303

asks Eleanor’s advice on running again, 243

the convention, 301

Eleanor plans strategy for, 297–98

Eleanor suggests Stevenson-Kennedy ticket, 294–98

movement to draft, 291–92

not a “draft evader,” 291

personality attractive to women, 246

presidential campaign (1952), 204, 205, 209–14

presidential campaign (1956), 241–69

presidential campaign (1960), 283, 288, 305, 307

response to draft-movement upsetting to friends, 302–3

speech before Advisory Committee dinner, 289

speeches too academic, 242

writes Eleanor in hospital, 337

see also
Democrats/Democratic party

Stevenson, Adlai, Jr., 282

Stevenson Club, 246

Stevenson for President Committee, 243

Stimson, Henry L., 3

Stix, Thomas L., 183, 311, 312, 331, 333, 334

Stokes, Thomas L., 20

Straight, Michael, 32, 32
n

Strayer, Martha, 185

Streit, Clarence, 18

“Struggle for the Rights of Man, The,” 63

Suckley, Margaret (Daisy), 4, 5, 6

Suez, 263

Sukarno, Achmed, 201

Sullivan, Lucille, 165

Supreme Court, 1954 desegregation decision, 248–51, 254–56, 262

Svenska, Dagbladet
, 189

Sweden, 94

Swing, Mrs. Gram, 33–34

Symington, Stuart, 246, 288, 297

Taft, Robert A., 138

Takagi, Yasaka, 344
n

Tamas, 237

Tammany Hall, 13, 173, 278, 280

Taubman, Howard, 183

Taylor-Rostow Report, 326

Ten Little Indians
, 104

Third World, 191, 274

“This I Believe,” 340

This I Remember,
164, 184–87

This Is My Story
, 184

Thomas, Elbert D., 120

Thomas, Norman, 331

Thompson, Geraldine (Mrs. Lewis), 318–19, 336

Thompson, Malvina, 3–4, 23, 25, 28, 43, 85, 144, 160, 165, 168, 183, 185, 201, 246, 313, 316

exhausted, breaks in Maureen Corr as her successor, 171–72

her death, 238

Thurmond, Strom, 146

Tillich, Paul, 337

Time,
“Madame Roosevelt becoming beautiful” report, 171

Tito, Marshal ( Josip Broz), 76, 229, 231–32, 241

Tito, Mrs., 232

Tobias, Channing, 235, 253

Tommy,
see
Thompson, Malvina

Tomorrow Is Now
, 332

Toombs, Henry, 8n, 169

Townsend, John G., Jr., 23, 31, 34

“Tractors for Freedom,” 324

“Tragedy of Liberalism,” 73

Transjordan, 127

Tree, Mrs. Ronald, 323

Truman, Bess, 3, 182

Truman, Harry S., 3, 5–6, 9, 17, 19–20, 43, 46, 63, 70, 86, 97, 136–37, 157–58, 161, 167, 190, 200, 202, 208, 213, 302, 326
n
, 343, 344
n

appoints Eleanor UN delegate, 19–20

corresponds with Eleanor on possibility of Third World War, 94–95

Eleanor defends Truman Doctrine, 85

Eleanor’s fear of Churchill’s influence on, 71

and Eleanor’s plans to visit Soviet Union, 16

Eleanor’s report to on Third World distrust of U.S., 192–94

“get tough with Russia” policy, break with Wallace, 74–75

and James Roosevelt’s candidacy for California governorship, 174

Jewish refugee question, 103–4, 105, 107, 110, 112

lunches with Eleanor, Democratic politics discussed, 14

and presidential campaign (1956), 245, 257–59

problems with Congress, 133, 135

threat to draft striking railroad workers, 75

see also
Democrats/Democratic party

Truman, Harry S., Correspondence springs up between Eleanor and, 11

her letter to on Churchill and Russia, 11–12

Truman, Harry S., partition of Palestine question, 113, 114, 115, 119, 121, 122, 125–27

Bernadotte Plan and, 129

Truman, Harry S., presidential campaign (1948), 133–49

disagreements with Eleanor over administration policy, 137–38

Eleanor complains to over Clinton Anderson’s appointment, 135–36

Eleanor’s memo to on major foreign-policy concerns, 148–49

middle-American conservatism, 133–34

Truman, Harry S., presidential campaign (1952), 204, 205, 210, 211–12

Eleanor’s message to at end of his presidency, 218

urges Eleanor to attend Democratic convention, 207

Truman, Harry S., and presidential campaign (1960):

attack on liberals, 289

resigns as convention delegate, 298, 300

Truman Doctrine, 82–86, 87, 135